Money mischief: episodes in monetary history

Preface

ch. 1. The island of stone money

ch. 2. The mystery of money

ch. 3. The crime of 1873

ch. 4. A counterfactual exercise : estimating the effect of continuing bimetallism after 1873

ch. 5. William Jennings Bryan and the cyanide process

ch. 6. Bimetallism revisited

ch. 7. FDR, silver, and China

ch. 8. The cause and cure of inflation

ch. 9. Chile and Israel : identical policies, opposite outcomes

ch. 10. Monetary policy in a Fiat world

ch. 11. An epilogue

References.