Preface Acknowledgments Part I. A Theory of Monetary Institutions: 1. The evolution of money and banking 2. Money and the state Part II. The Uncertain Progress of Monetary Theory and Monetary Reform: 3. The classical theory of money 4. The quantity theory of money 5. The heyday of the gold standard, 1879-1914 6. The Great War, the Great Depression, and the gold standard 7. The Keynesian revolution and the monetarist counterrevolution Part III. A Competitive Monetary Regime: 8. The competitive breakthrough 9. Can competitive banking be safe and stable? 10. Why we need a new monetary regime 11. A proposal for monetary reform References Index.
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