Money

by Galbraith, John Kenneth

• ISBN13: 9780395710852
• ISBN10: 0395710855
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-02-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

A classic look at the story of money is updated for the 1990s by the eminent economist, offering an in-depth, often hilarious lesson in human behavior and a layman's course in the theory and practice of economics. Reprint.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction to the Revised Edition
Money	p. 1
Of Coins and Treasure	p. 5
Banks	p. 17
The Bank	p. 28
Of Paper	p. 45
An Instrument of Revolution	p. 58
The Money War	p. 68
The Great Compromise	p. 85
The Price	p. 103
The Impeccable System	p. 118
The Fall	p. 136
The Ultimate Inflation	p. 148
The Self-Inflicted Wounds	p. 166
When the Money Stopped	p. 186
The Threat of the Impossible	p. 202
The Coming of J. M. Keynes	p. 220
War and the Next Lesson	p. 239
Good Years: The Preparation	p. 259
The New Economics at High Noon	p. 273
Money and Politics	p. 288
The 1980s and On	p. 306
Afterword	p. 310
Index	p. 320
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