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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Acknowledgements
Contents Summary
Contents
List of Figures
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Introduction
The conventions and the counter-theory
A world of commodity money
Money reinvented
1. Creation stories
A. The conventional creation story
B. Money as a constitutional project
2 From metal to money Producing the “just penny”
A. The unit of account, or “good and lawful sterlings”
B. The mode of payment, or why sheriffs privileged the penny
C. The medium of exchange and the importance of the count
D. The fast-moving and high-powered pennies of medieval England
3 Commodity money as an extreme sport Flows, famines, debasements, and imitation pennies
A. The instability of commodity money
B. Leveling down: resetting the standard in an unstable world
C. Making it stick: current exchange, past deals, and the early English attachment to “nominalism”
D. The episode of the imitation pennies
4 The high politics of medieval money Strong coin, heavy taxes, and the English invention of public credit
A. The English approach to value: strong money and heavy taxes
B. The alliance and its allocation of authority
C. The lost history of public tallies
5. The social stratigraphy of coin and credit in late medieval England
A. A coin too discriminating to meet the demand
B. The peculiar credit of the English
6 Priming the pump The sovereign path towards paying for coin and circulating credit
A. Making money free
B. The decline of tallies as currency that came at a charge
C. A new form of public debt: circulating promises to pay
D. The cash bottleneck
7. Interests, rights, and the currency of public debt
A. The legalities for liquidity I: nominalism as political theory
B. The ascendance of interest
C. The legalities for liquidity II: the case of public debt
D. The practice of the public debt
8 Reinventing money The beginning of bank currency
A. The turn towards paper money
B. The paradigmatic medium of the modern world: money from the Bank
9 Re-theorizing money The struggle over the modern imagination
A. Money as home-grown credit
B. Money as traders’ silver
10. The 18th century architecture of modern money
A. Resolving the debate: the Whig alliance over Bank currency and coin
B. The liberal turn to “gold”
C. Money as a domestic process
11 Epilogue to the 18th century The Gold Standard in an era of inconvertibility
Recognizing the fiat reality of money
The private as compass
Constitutional compromise
Conclusion From blood to water
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index
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