Clasificación:
GP 332.415 H417d:3
Título:
Denationalisation of money : the argument refined. --
Edición:
3 ed.
Imp / Ed.:
Londres, Inglaterra : Institute of Economic Affairs -IEA-, 1990, c1976
Descripción:
144 p. ; 22 cm.
Serie:
Hobart paper ; 70
Contenido:
Introduction to the third edition. -- I. The practical proposal. -- II.
The generalisation of the underlying principle. -- III. The origin of
the government prerogative of making money. -- IV. The persistent abuse
of the government prerogative. -- V. The mystique of legal tender. --
VI. The confusion about Gersham's law. -- VII. The limited experience
with parallel currencies and trade coins. -- VIII. Putting private token
money into circulation. -- IX. Competition between banks issuing
different currencies. -- X. A digression on the definition of money. --
XI. The possibility of controlling the value of a competitive currency.
-- XII. Which sort of currency would the public select? -- XIII. Which
value of money? -- XIV. The uselessness of the quantity theory for our
purposes. -- XV. The desirable behaviour of the supply of currency. --
XVI. Free banking. -- XVII. No more general inflation or deflation? --
XVIII. Monetary policy neither desirable nor possible. -- XIX. A better
discipline than fixed rates of exchange. -- XX. Should there be separate
currency areas? -- XXI. The effects on government finance and
expenditure. -- XXII. Problems of transition. -- XXIII. Protection
against the state. -- XXIV. The long-run prospects. -- XXV. Conclusions.
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Resumen:
Tomado de la contraportada: "Summary: 1. The government monopoly of money must be abolished to stop the recurring bouts of acute inflation and deflation that have become accentuated during the last 70 years. -- 2. Abolition is also the cure for the more deep-seated disease of the recurring waves of depression and unemployment attributed to 'capitalism'. -- 3. The monopoly of money by government has relieved it of the need to keep its expenditure within its revenue and has thus precipitated the spectacular increase in government expenditure over the last 40 years.... "
ISBN:
0255362390
Notas:
El ejemplar 538955 pertenece a la colección George Pearson (GP), ubicada en el Bib-108, primer nivel.
Ubicación de copias:
Ludwig von Mises - Ver mapa: Bib-108, primer nivel - Tiempo de préstamo: No circula -
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