Gold : the once and future money /
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| Author / Creator: | Lewis, Nathan K., 1971- |
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| Imprint: | Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2007. |
| Description: | xvi, 447 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6374443 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part 1. Money in All its Forms
- Chapter 1. Good Money Is Stable Money: A Barter Economy vs. a Money Economy
- Chapter 2. Hard Money and Soft Money: Currency around the World--from the 7th Century BC to the 21st Century AD
- Chapter 3. Supply, Demand, and the Value of Currency: How the Circulation of Money Is Regulated by Central Banks
- Chapter 4. Inflation, Deflation, and Floating Currencies: And Their Effect on Prices, Wages, Taxes, and Debt
- Chapter 5. The Gold Standard: A Benchmark of the Value of Money that Creates a Free Market
- Chapter 6. Taxes: How They Diminish Productivity, Trade, the Stability of Money, and Overall Economic Health
- Part 2. A History of US Money
- Chapter 7. Money in America: From Colonial Silver and Paper to the Turmoil of 1929
- Chapter 8. A History of Central Banking: From Ancient Egypt and Rome to the Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve
- Chapter 9. The 1930s: Bad Capitalism and a Failure of Monetary and Fiscal Policy
- Chapter 10. The Bretton Woods Gold Standard: 30 Years of Hard Currency Destroyed by Taxes in the 1970s
- Chapter 11. Volcker and Reagan: Monetarism Fails, But the Tax Cuts Succeed: And the 1980s Boom
- Chapter 12. The Greenspan Years: The 1987 Stock Market Crash, a Recession, Deflation, and a Slow Economic Recovery
- Part 3. Currency Crises Around the World
- Chapter 13. Japan's Two Great Periods of Economic Success: Based on a Gold Standard/Hard Currency and Low Taxes
- Chapter 14. The Asia Crisis of the Late 1990s: Worldwide Currency Turmoil and Economic Disaster Caused by a Mismanaged US Dollar
- Chapter 15. Devastating Currency Devaluations in Russian, China, Mexico, and Yugoslavia
- Chapter 16. A Return to Hard Currencies: Good Government Leads to Good Money
- Notes
