Gold
Subtitle: the once and future money
By: Nathan Lewis.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780470047668
Subjects: Monetary policy; Business cycles; Gold standard
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Good money is stable money : a barter economy vs. a money economy; title: Hard money and soft money : currency around the world from the 7th century BC to the 21st century AD; title: Supply, demand, and the value of currency : how the circulation of money is regulated by central banks; title: Inflation, deflation, and floating currencies : their effect on prices, wages, taxes, and debt; title: The gold standard : a benchmark of the value of money that creates a free market; title: Taxes : how they diminish productivity, trade, the stability of money, and overall economic health; title: Money in America : from colonial silver and paper to the turmoil of 1929; title: A history of central banking : from ancient Egypt and Rome to the bank of England and the US federal reserve; title: The 1930s : bad capitalism and a failure of monetary and fiscal policy; title: The Bretton Woods gold standard : 30 years of hard currency destroyed by taxes in the 1970s; title: Volcker and Reagan : monetarism fails, but the tax cuts succeed : the 1980s boom; title: The Greenspan years : the 1987 stock market crash, a recession, deflation, and a slow economic recovery; title: Japan's two great periods of economic success based on a gold standard/hard currency and low taxes; title: The Asia crisis of the late 1990s : worldwide currency turmoil and economic disaster caused by a mismanaged US dollar; title: Devastating currency devaluations in Russian, China, Mexico, and Yugoslavia; title: A return to hard currencies : good government leads to good money.