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Author:

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.

Title:

Money : whence it came, where it went / John Kenneth Galbraith, with a new foreword by James K. Galbraith.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xiii, 374 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Money--History.
Economic history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Money -- Chapter 2: Of Coins and Treasure -- Chapter 3: Banks -- Chapter 4: The Bank -- Chapter 5: Of Paper -- Chapter 6: An Instrument of Revolution -- Chapter 7: The Money War -- Chapter 8: The Great Compromise -- Chapter 9: The Price -- Chapter 10: The Impeccable System -- Chapter 11: The Fall -- Chapter 12: The Ultimate Inflation -- Chapter 13: The Self-Inflicted Wounds -- Chapter 14: When the Money Stopped -- Chapter 15: The Threat of the Impossible -- Chapter 16: The Coming of J.M. Keynes -- Chapter 17: War and the Next Lesson -- Chapter 18: Good Years: The Preparation -- Chapter 19: The New Economics at High Noon -- Chapter 20: Where It Went -- Chapter 21: Afterword -- Index.

Summary:

Galbraith, the noted economist-diplomat, traces the evolution of money and the institutions and techniques for its management and mismanagement from Lydian coinage to current inflation.

ISBN:

0691171661
9780691171661

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1002660810

LCCN:

2017945483

Locations:

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)