LEADER 03152cam 22004454a 4500001 ocm87151964 003 OCoLC 005 20141211194759.0 008 070206s2007 njua b 001 0 eng 010 2007005000 020 9780470047668 (cloth) 020 0470047666 (cloth) 029 1 YDXCP |b2441270 035 (Sirsi) o87151964 035 (OCoLC)87151964 040 DLC |cDLC |dYDX |dBAKER |dNPL |dYDXCP |dUtOrBLW 049 EREE 050 00 HG230.3 |b.L48 2007 082 00 332.4/042 |222 100 1 Lewis, Nathan K., |d1971- |=^A716374 245 10 Gold : |bthe once and future money / |cNathan Lewis. 260 Hoboken, N.J. : |bJohn Wiley, |c©2007. 300 xvi, 447 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-432) and index. 505 0 Good money is stable money : how people make a living through monetary cooperation -- Hard money and soft money : currencies and economies around the world--from the seventh century BC to the twenty-first century AD -- Supply, demand, and the value of currency : how the value and quantity of money are regulated by central banks -- Inflation, deflation, and floating currencies : the effects of monetary distortion on the economy -- The gold standard : the most effective means of creating a currency of stable value -- Taxes : economic miracle to economic disaster, and the art of statesmanship -- Money in America : from colonial silver and paper to the turmoil of 1929 -- A history of central banking : from ancient Egypt and Rome to the Bank of England and the U.S. Federal Reserve -- The 1930s : a failure of monetary and fiscal policy causes a capitalist collapse -- The Bretton Woods gold standard : the postwar golden age and the beginning of monetary chaos -- Reagan and Volcker : monetarism fails, but the tax cuts succeed--and the 1980s boom -- The Greenspan years : the 1987 stock market crash, a recession, recovery, and monetary deflation -- Japan's success and failure : tax cuts, a golden yen, and the greatest monetary deflation in history -- The Asia crisis of the late 1990s : worldwide currency turmoil and economic disaster caused by a mismanaged U.S. dollar -- Russia, China, Mexico, and Yugoslavia : the Communist gold standards and hyperinflationary collapse -- A return to hard currencies : good money is a cornerstone of good government. 650 0 Monetary policy. |=^A25239 650 0 Business cycles. |=^A19868 650 0 Gold standard. |=^A32197 856 41 |3Table of contents only |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007005000.html 994 92 |bERE 910 PromptCat 938 Baker & Taylor |bBKTY |c27.95 |d20.96 |i0470047666 |n0006746443 |sactive 938 YBP Library Services |bYANK |n2441270 980 2007-06-06 |b27.95 |d0 |e23.48 |f156080 596 1 998 1083810