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I read about 300 pages (in Turkish) and it had a really useful spreadsheet of the value of the pound from early medieval to 1800's and it allowed me to check what events lead to the currency falling or rising, and how a kingdom affects the general population.
The book is boring as shit, it's really fucking boring. But what he says is just the foundations of how capitalism works, and nothing at all like what some other people might want to claim him to be