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Machine generated contents note: 1.The Nature and Origins of Money And Barter -- The importance of money -- Sovereignty of monetary policy -- Unprecedented inflation of population -- Barter: as old as the hills -- Persistence of gift exchange -- Money: barter's disputed paternity -- Modern barter an...

Note continued: 3.The Development of Greek and Roman Money, 600 BC -- AD 410 -- The widening circulation of coins -- Laurion silver and Athenian coinage -- Greek and metic private bankers -- The Attic money standard -- Banking in Delos -- Macedonian money and hegemony -- The financial consequences o...

Note continued: The pound sterling to 1272 -- Touchstones and trials of the Pyx -- The Treasury and the tally -- The Crusades: financial and fiscal effects -- The Black Death and the Hundred Years War -- Poll taxes and the Peasants' Revolt -- Money and credit at the end of the Middle Ages -- 5.The E...

Note continued: Bank money supply first begins to exceed coinage -- From the seizure of the mint to its mechanization, 1640 -- 1672 -- From the great recoinage to the death of Newton, 1696 -- 1727 -- The rise of the goldsmith-banker, 1633 -- 1672 -- Tally-money and the Stop of the Exchequer -- Found...

Note continued: The discount houses, the money market and the bill on London -- The merchant banks, the capital market and overseas investment -- The final triumph of the full gold standard, 1850 -- 1914 -- Gold reserves, tallies and the constitution -- 8.British Monetary Development in the Twentiet...

Note continued: The official dollar and the growth of banking up to the Civil War, 1775 -- 1861 -- From the Civil War to the founding of the 'Fed', 1861 -- 1913 -- The banks through boom and slump, 1914 -- 1944 -- Bretton Woods: vision and realization, 1944 -- 1991 -- American banks abroad -- From a...

Note continued: German monetary development: from insignificance to cornerstone of the EMS -- The monetary development of Japan since 1868 -- Stagnation and the limitations of monetary policy, 1990 -- 2014 -- The arrival of modern China, 1949 to 2014 -- 11.Money and Debt in Developing Nations During...

Note continued: The epoch-making euro -- More coins in an increasingly cashless society -- The paradox of coin: rising production -- falling significance -- Speculation and the Tobin Tax -- Inflation redux -- 13.Conclusion: The Role of Money in a Global Economy -- Long-term swings in the quality/qua...