This book brings together for the first time more than half a dozen proposals, including several which have never been studied before, to show how thinkers on empire drew on monetary thought and banking theory to address the financial, political and constitutional challenges of empire in the...

Introduction - The Main Features of the International Money's Evolution -- Money and the International Monetary System: Origins and Evolution -- The Classic Gold Standard -- The Gold-Exchange Standard, its Collapse, and the Interwar Lack of an International Money -- The Bretton Woods System --...

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: Why to Study “The Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone and its Impact in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa” -- Part I. The Origin of the Escudo Monetary Zone -- Chapter 2: The Escudo Monetary Zone -- Chapter 3: The Difficulties in launching the Escudo Monetary Zone --...

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:...

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.

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 How is money created? -- Chapter 3 The history of money creation -- Chapter 4 An appraisal of the financial monetary system -- Chapter 5 How does the sovereign money system work? -- Chapter 6 Advantages and disadvantages of the sovereign money system --...

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: The Monetary System and the Business of Banking -- Overview of the Monetary System -- Introduction to the Business of Banking -- Introduction to the Business of Banking -- Introduction to the Business of Banking -- Part II: Asset-Liability Management --...

1. Introduction -- 2. European money and culture before 1914 -- 3. The 1920s: Lessons from Weimar -- 4. The Jazz Age: America in the 1920s -- 5. The money-haters: experiments in socialism -- 6. Europe between the world wars: a ferment of ideas -- 7. How Europe’s culture kept money under...