00857nam0-22003131i-450-990000563160403321200010100 471 97266 5000056316FED01000056316(Aleph)000056316FED0100005631620001010d--------km-y0itay50------baitay-------001yyIntroduction to scientific computingBrigitte Lucquin , Olivier PironneauChichesterWiley1998361 p. , 22 cm620'.001Lucquin,Brigitte30407Pironneau,OlivierITUNINARICAUNIMARCBK99000056316040332105 76 232097DININDININIntroduction to scientific computing319454UNINAING0103865nam 2200625 a 450 991014368610332120170815165039.01-119-19723-61-280-90123-397866109012340-470-14963-9(CKB)1000000000356851(EBL)297325(OCoLC)437182340(SSID)ssj0000164310(PQKBManifestationID)11168644(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164310(PQKBWorkID)10121291(PQKB)11449138(MiAaPQ)EBC297325(EXLCZ)99100000000035685120070206d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGold[electronic resource] the once and future money /Nathan LewisHoboken, N.J. John Wiley20071 online resource (466 p.)Agora SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-470-04766-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-432) and index.Good money is stable money : how people make a living through monetary cooperation -- Hard money and soft money : currencies and economies around the world--from the seventh century BC to the twenty-first century AD -- Supply, demand, and the value of currency : how the value and quantity of money are regulated by central banks -- Inflation, deflation, and floating currencies : the effects of monetary distortion on the economy -- The gold standard : the most effective means of creating a currency of stable value -- Taxes : economic miracle to economic disaster, and the art of statesmanship -- Money in America : from colonial silver and paper to the turmoil of 1929 -- A history of central banking : from ancient Egypt and Rome to the Bank of England and the U.S. Federal Reserve -- The 1930s : a failure of monetary and fiscal policy causes a capitalist collapse -- The Bretton Woods gold standard : the postwar golden age and the beginning of monetary chaos -- Reagan and Volcker : monetarism fails, but the tax cuts succeed--and the 1980s boom -- The Greenspan years : the 1987 stock market crash, a recession, recovery, and monetary deflation -- Japan's success and failure : tax cuts, a golden yen, and the greatest monetary deflation in history -- The Asia crisis of the late 1990s : worldwide currency turmoil and economic disaster caused by a mismanaged U.S. dollar -- Russia, China, Mexico, and Yugoslavia : the Communist gold standards and hyperinflationary collapse -- A return to hard currencies : good money is a cornerstone of good government.For most of the last three millennia, the world's commercial centers have used one or another variant of a gold standard. It should be one of the best understood of human institutions, but it's not. It's one of the worst understood, by both its advocates and detractors. Though it has been spurned by governments many times, this has never been due to a fault of gold to serve its duty, but because governments had other plans for their currencies beyond maintaining their stability. And so, says Nathan Lewis, there is no reason to believe that the great monetary successes of the past four centurieAgora SeriesMonetary policyBusiness cyclesGold standardElectronic books.Monetary policy.Business cycles.Gold standard.332.4042332.422283.50bclLewis Nathan K.1971-895742MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910143686103321Gold2001020UNINA01353nam0 22003013i 450 VAN026926420240105092121.101N978370912814520240105d1984 |0itac50 baengAT|||| |||||Abelian Groups and ModulesProceedings of the Udine Conference, Udine, April 9-14, 1984. Dedicated to Laszlo Fuchs on his 60. Birthdayedited by R. Göbel, ... [et al.]WienSpringer-Verlag1984xiv, 531 p.24 cm001VAN00499312001 CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences210 BerlinSpringer1969-287Abelian groupsKW:KWienVANL000107GobelRudigerVANV089870Springer <editore>VANV108073650ITSOL20240614RICAhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2814-5E-book – Accesso al full-text attraverso riconoscimento IP di Ateneo, proxy e/o ShibbolethBIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI MATEMATICA E FISICAIT-CE0120VAN08NVAN0269264BIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI MATEMATICA E FISICA08CONS e-book 7993 08eMF7993 20240202 Abelian groups and modules82912UNICAMPANIA