Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-156) and index
1. Money and monetary systems -- 2. Money and income -- 3. Interest rates and financial markets -- 4. Central banks and the money supply -- 5. Monetary policy -- 6. Critiques of monetary policy -- Notes -- References -- Index.
The premise of the author is that the study of money should commence at the most general level. Consequently, the book is anchored in the context of monetary systems (commodity, fiduciary, and fiat monies). The intent is to give the student of money a very broad perspective. It allows them to understand, for example, how the money we use today differs from money used in the past, or how our current money relates to money discovered by anthropologists in isolated subcultures..
* Austrian views on money and interest rates * fiat money * inflation and the secular decline in the value of money * interest rates * monetary policy and its shortcomings * seigniorage