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The Mystery of Banking, 2nd edition
Cover
Title Page
Copyright 2008 by the Ludwig von Mises Institute
9781933550282
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Foreword
Chapter I. Money: Its Importance and Origins
1.The Importance of Money
2.How Money Begins
3.The Proper Qualities of Money
4.The Money Unit
Chapter II. What Determines Prices: Supply and Demand
Chapter III. Money and Overall Prices
1. The Supply and Demand for Money and Overall Prices
2.Why Overall Prices Change
Chapter IV. The Supply of Money
1.What Should The Supply of Money Be?
2.The Supply of Gold and the Counterfeiting Process
3.Government Paper Money
4.The Origins of Government Paper Money
Chapter V. The Demand for Money
1.The Supply of Goods and Services
2.Frequency of Payment
3. Cleaning Systems
4.Confidence in the Money
5.Inflationary or Deflationary: Expectations
Chapter VI. Loan Banking
Chapter VII. Deposit Banking
1.Warehouse Receipts
2.Deposit Banking and Embezzlement
3.Fractional Reserve Banking
Chapter VIII. Free Banking and the Limits on Bank Credit Inflation
Chapter IX. Central Banking: Removing the Limits
Chapter X. Central Banking: Determining Total Reserves
1.The Demand for Cash
2.The Demand for Gold
3.Loans to the Banks
4.Open Market Operations
Chapter XI. Central Banking: The Process of Bank Credit Expansion
1.Expansion from Bank to Bank
2.The Central Bank and the Treasury
Chapter XII. The Origins of Central Banking
1.The Bank of England
2.Free Banking in Scotland
3.The Peelite Crackdown
Chapter XIII. Central Banking in the United States I: The Origins
1.The Bank of North America and the First Bank of the United States
2.The Second Bank of the United States
Chapter XIV. Central Banking in the United States II: The 1820s to the Civil War
1.The Jacksonian Movement
2.Decentralized Banking from the 1830s to the Civil War
Chapter XV. Central Banking in the United States III: The National Banking System
1.The Civil War and the National Banking System
2.The National Banking Era and the Origins of the Federal Reserve System
Chapter XVI. Central Banking in the United States IV: The Federal Reserve System
1.The Inflationary Structure of the Fed
2.The Inflationary Policies of the Fed
Chapter XVII. Conclusion: The Present Banking Situation and What To Do About It
1.The Road to the Present
2.The Present Money Supply
3.How to Return to Sound Money
Appendix
Index
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