Table of Contents

Copyright

Preface

Introduction

Part I: The Natural Production of Money

  1. Monies

  2. Money Certificates

  3. Money within the Market Process

  4. Utilitarian Considerations on the Production of Money

Part II: Inflation

  1. General Considerations on Inflation

  2. Private Inflation: Counterfeiting Money Certificates

  3. Enters the State: Fiat Inflation through Legal Privileges

  4. Legalized Falsifications

  5. Legal Monopolies

  6. Legal-Tender Laws

  7. Legalized Suspensions of Payments

  8. Paper Money

  9. The Cultural and Spiritual Legacy of Fiat Inflation

Part III: Monetary Order and Monetary Systems

  1. Monetary Order

  2. Fiat Monetary Systems in the Realm of the Nation-State

  3. International Banking Systems, 1871–1971

  4. International Paper-Money Systems, 1971–?

Conclusion

References