The money changers : currency reform from Aristotle to e-cash / / edited by David Boyle

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460833303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Earthscan from Routledge, , 2002
• ISBN: 1-315-07199-1; 1-134-20813-8; 1-134-20806-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BoyleDavid <1958->
• Disciplina: 332.4
• Soggetti: Money - History; Currency question - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; List of Sources; Introduction The failure of money; John Ruskin - Unto This Last (1860); John Maynard Keynes - National Self-sufficiency (1933); Part I The trouble with money: there isn't enough of it; Benjamin Franklin - The benefits of printing paper money (1729); Robert Owen - Labour as a standard of value (1820); Ignatius Donnelly - The Populists (1892); William Jennings Bryan - Crucifying mankind (1896); L Frank Baum - The Wizard of Oz (1900); Silvio Gesell - Why money has to rust (1913)C H Douglas - Purchasing power (1931); William Krehm - Bulgarian tenors and central bankers (1989); James Robertson - Chickenfood and horsefood (1992); Part II The trouble with money: there's too much of it; Daniel Defoe - The villainy of stock-jobbers (1701); Thomas Jefferson - Should we have banks? (1813); Charles MacKay - Tulipmania (1841); Washington Irving - A time of unexampled prosperity (1855); John Kenneth Galbraith - The great crash (1954); Ralph Borsodi - The trouble with Keynesianism (1974); Paul Glover - Hometown money (1992); The Earl of Caithness - Debt-based money supply (1997)George Soros ; - The looming crisis (1995); Part III The trouble with money: it's corrupt; Aristotle - Unnatural wealth (350 BC); Francis Bacon - Of usury (1601); Jonathan Swift - Debasing the coinage (1724); Abraham Lincoln - Monetary policy (1865); Frederick Soddy - Arch-enemy of economic freedom (1943); Jane Jacobs - Cities and the wealth of nations (1984); Margrit Kennedy - The dangers of interest (1988); Joel Kurtzman - The death of money (1993); Michael Rowbotham - The grip of death (1998); Part IV Democratic money; Andrew Jackson - The bank veto (1832)C H Douglas - Economic democracy (1919); Henry Ford - Muscle Shoals and the end of war (1921); William Aberhart - Social credit manual (1935); B F Skinner - Labour credits (1948); 'Sovereignty' - Empowering local government (1999); James Robertson and Joseph Huber - Restoring seigniorage (2000); Part V Future money; Marco Polo - Paper money (circa 1299); John Law - The paper currency proposal (1705); Walter Bagehot - A universal money (1869); Edward Bellamy - Credit cards (1888); William Morris - Abolishing money (1891); Fischer Black - A world without money (1970)F A Hayek - Denationalization of money (1976); David Chaum - The beginnings of digital money (1992); Lawrence White - The transition problem (1994); Edward de Bono - The IBM dollar (1994); David Birch and Neil McEvoy - Downloadsamoney (1996); Mervyn King - A future for central banks (1999); Part VI Create your own: real money; Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - People's banking (1848); Frederick Soddy - The remedy (1926); Robert Eisler - The money maze (1931); Jan Goudriaan - How to stop deflation (1932); Irving Fisher - 100% money (1935); Benjamin Graham - Commodities and currency (1944)