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Gold: The Once and Future Money by Lewis, Nathan
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- Condition
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
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- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780470047668
- Book Title
- Gold : the Once and Future Money
- Book Series
- Agora Ser.
- Publisher
- Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Business & Economics
- Topic
- Economics / General, Money & Monetary Policy, Personal Finance / General
- Item Weight
- 24.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.7 in
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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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 centuries, and indeed the past four millennia, could not be recreated in the next four centuries. In Gold, he makes a forceful, well-documented case for a worldwide return to the gold standard. Governments and central bankers around the world today unanimously agree on the desirability of stable money, ever more so after some monetary disaster has reduced yet another economy to smoking ruins. Lewis shows how gold provides the stability needed to foster greater prosperity and productivity throughout the world. He offers an insightful look at money in all its forms, from the seventh century B.C. to the present day, explaining in straightforward layman's terms the effects of inflation, deflation, and floating currencies along with their effect on prices, wages, taxes, and debt. He explains how the circulation of money is regulated by central banks and, in the process, demystifies the concepts of supply, demand, and the value of currency. And he illustrates how higher taxes diminish productivity, trade, and the stability of money. Lewis also provides an entertaining history of U.S. money and offers a sobering look at recent currency crises around the world, including the Asian monetary crisis of the late 1990s and the devastating currency devaluations in Russia, China, Mexico, and Yugoslavia. Lewis's ultimate conclusion is simple but powerful: gold has been adopted as money because it works. The gold standard produced decades and even centuries of stable money and economic abundance. If history is a guide, it will be done again. Nathan Lewis was formerly the chief international economist of a firm that provided investment research for institutions. He now works for an asset management company based in New York. Lewis has written for the Financial Times , Asian Wall Street Journal, Japan Times, Pravda, and other publications. He has appeared on financial television in the United States, Japan, and the Middle East.
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Publisher
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10
0470047666
ISBN-13
9780470047668
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52611281
Product Key Features
Book Title
Gold : the Once and Future Money
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Economics / General, Money & Monetary Policy, Personal Finance / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Business & Economics
Book Series
Agora Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
24.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Lccn
2007-005000
Series Volume Number
24
Dewey Decimal
332.4/042
Lc Classification Number
Hg289
Table of Content
Foreword by Addison Wiggin. Preface. Part I. Money in All its Forms. Chapter 1. Good Money Is Stable Money: A Barter Economy vs. a Money Economy. Chapter 2. Hard Money and Soft Money: Currency around the World--from the 7th Century BC to the 21st Century AD. Chapter 3. Supply, Demand, and the Value of Currency: How the Circulation of Money Is Regulated by Central Banks. Chapter 4. Inflation, Deflation, and Floating Currencies: And Their Effect on Prices, Wages, Taxes, and Debt. Chapter 5. The Gold Standard: A Benchmark of the Value of Money that Creates a Free Market. Chapter 6. Taxes: How They Diminish Productivity, Trade, the Stability of Money, and Overall Economic Health. Part II. A History of US Money. Chapter 7. Money in America: From Colonial Silver and Paper to the Turmoil of 1929. Chapter 8. A History of Central Banking: From Ancient Egypt and Rome to the Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve. Chapter 9. The 1930s: Bad Capitalism and a Failure of Monetary and Fiscal Policy. Chapter 10. The Bretton Woods Gold Standard: 30 Years of Hard Currency Destroyed by Taxes in the 1970s. Chapter 11. Volcker and Reagan: Monetarism Fails, But the Tax Cuts Succeed: And the 1980s Boom. Chapter 12. The Greenspan Years: The 1987 Stock Market Crash, a Recession, Deflation, and a Slow Economic Recovery. Part III. Currency Crises Around the World. Chapter 13. Japan's Two Great Periods of Economic Success: Based on a Gold Standard/Hard Currency and Low Taxes. Chapter 14. The Asia Crisis of the Late 1990s: Worldwide Currency Turmoil and Economic Disaster Caused by a Mismanaged US Dollar. Chapter 15. Devastating Currency Devaluations in Russian, China, Mexico, and Yugoslavia. Chapter 16. A Return to Hard Currencies: Good Government Leads to Good Money. Notes.
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2007
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