Primitive and Non-metallic Money -- Monetary System of Ancient Asia: China -- Monetary System of the Ancient Regime -- Medieval Debasement and Seigniorage -- Gresham's Law -- Flows of Precious Metals and Prices in Europe -- Rise and Decline of the Global Silver Standard -- Money, Trade, and...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. From Plurality of Issue to Monopoly and Back: 1850-60 -- Chapter 3. From the "Law of Impediments" to Restoration of Monopoly: 1860-66 -- Chapter 4. The Treasury as a Monopolist Note Issuer: 1866-89 -- Chapter 5. Taking Stock: Monetary and Banking Policy in...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. From War Financier to Bankers’ Bank -- Chapter 3. Central Banks under the Gold Standard -- Chapter 4. The Federal Reserve: A Unique Institution -- Chapter 5. From War to War: 1914-1939 -- Chapter 6. Post-war Progress: 1946-1960 -- Chapter 7. The 1960s:...

Introduction - Is there an alternative? -- 1 In the beginning -- 2 From the swinging '60s to AI - the emergence of Islamic finance -- 3 2008 financial crisis - Did Islamic finance outperform traditional finance? -- 4 Murabaha, Salam and Takaful - Do these models reflect Islamic finance values?...

Part 1: Purchasing Power Parity: Origin and Use -- Chapter 1: Salamancans and Gerard Malynes -- Chapter 2: Gustav Cassel -- Chapter 3: Purchasing Power Parity in Economic History -- Chapter 4: Afterword to Part I -- Part 2: Purchasing Power Parity: Empirical Studies -- Chapter 5: Absolute and...

Preface -- Chapter 1. A Preliminary Introduction -- Chapter 2. Puzzles of the Monetary Regime in Premodern China -- Chapter 3. The Divergence between China and Japan -- Chapter 4. The Worst Currency or The Best Arrangement? -- Chapter 5. An Epilogue -- Index.

Introduction -- Part I: Guggenheim Prize Lecture -- The Myth of Money as a Veil -- Part II: Financial History -- British Investment Trusts 1868 to 1928: Portfolio Diversification and the Beginnings of Institutional Investment -- Early Reflections on the Democratization of Organized Markets and...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Oil, Policy and Market Power -- Chapter 3: Looking at the Mirror: Early Days of the Oil Markets in the United States -- Chapter 4: From Competition to Monopoly -- Chapter 5: From Monopoly to Competition (Oil Markets Going Global) -- Chapter 6: Governments...

Chapter 1: Panonomics - ‘The What’ -- Chapter 2: Foundation in Place - ‘The Where’ -- Chapter 3: A Fourth Way - ‘The How’ -- Chapter 4: Mission: Time - ‘The Why’ -- Chapter 5: A People’s Panonomics - ‘The Who’ -- Chapter 6: Acting Now - ‘The When’ -- Chapter 7:...