LEADER 03832nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910830926203321 005 20230721030028.0 010 $a1-119-19723-6 010 $a1-280-90123-3 010 $a9786610901234 010 $a0-470-14963-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000356851 035 $a(EBL)297325 035 $a(OCoLC)437182340 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000164310 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11168644 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164310 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10121291 035 $a(PQKB)11449138 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC297325 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000356851 100 $a20070206d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGold$b[electronic resource] $ethe once and future money /$fNathan Lewis 210 $aHoboken, N.J. $cJohn Wiley$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (466 p.) 225 1 $aAgora Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-470-04766-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 423-432) and index. 327 $aGood 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. 330 $aFor most of the last three millennia, the world's commercial centers have used one or another variant of a gold standard. It should be one of the best understood of human institutions, but it's not. It's one of the worst understood, by both its advocates and detractors. Though it has been spurned by governments many times, this has never been due to a fault of gold to serve its duty, but because governments had other plans for their currencies beyond maintaining their stability. And so, says Nathan Lewis, there is no reason to believe that the great monetary successes of the past four centurie 410 0$aAgora Series 606 $aMonetary policy 606 $aBusiness cycles 606 $aGold standard 615 0$aMonetary policy. 615 0$aBusiness cycles. 615 0$aGold standard. 676 $a332.4042 676 $a332.4222 686 $a83.50$2bcl 700 $aLewis$b Nathan K.$f1971-$01691130 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910830926203321 996 $aGold$94067301 997 $aUNINA