Product Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

Product Description
The story of the Red de Trueque in Argentina (RT) exposes the problems of creating a grassroots market system parallel and complementary to the official economy. The RT was launched in 1995 by a group of environmentalists who exchanged goods and services at their own 'market' using a system of mutual credit. The group grew and they printed fiat money to facilitate exchange. The scheme was rapidly replicated across Argentina as the country's official economy faced meltdown. At its peak, the RT had 2.5 million participants and 4,700 marketplaces. However, although the organisers set codes of conduct and bodies to enforce them, it was impossible to deal with such a large self-regulated market and it collapsed to about a tenth of its peak size in a matter of months.This is the first book in English to analyse the rise and fall of RT. Gomez advances institutional theory by exploring how structural reforms disrupt institutions, here resulting in segments of unstable and uncertain economic action within the social structure. She identifies rules of governance and sustainability for institutional settings in which compliance is voluntary and state regulation is minimal.Finally, Gomez conceptualizes the economy of the poor and disenfranchised as an economic area driven by the need to survive, thus structured by specific institutions different to those guiding the economic action of the non-poor. ... Read more

Product Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

Product Description
The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: Being an Account of the Gold and Silver Monies and Monetary Standards of Europe and America, Together With an Examination of the Effects of Currency and Exchange Phenomena on Commercial and National Progress and Well-Being; Original Publisher: Putnam; Publication date: 1895; Subjects: Money; Business ... Read more

Product Description
Publisher: London : Printed for H.M.S.O. by Eyre and SpottiswoodeSubjects: Money -- Great Britain ColoniesMoney -- CanadaGreat Britain -- Colonies FinanceNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

Product Description
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.Publication date: 1900Subjects: MoneyDebts, PublicNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

Product Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

Product Description
This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1895 edition by Wilsons & Milne, London. ... Read more

Product Description
Since 1983 Hong Kong has pegged its currency to the US dollar through a currency board system that is unique among the world's advanced economies. In this first comprehensive book about Hong Kong's monetary system, Tony Latter draws on his considerably experience in the Bank of England and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority to give a detailed account of how the system operates; why it was introduced; what are the important differences from other monetary regimes; and how it has performed.

After a brief description of Hong Kong's currency board system, two chapters explain the key features of mainstream monetary policy as practiced in most economies and how the currency board differs. Then three chapters deal with the history of money in Hong Kong from the mid-1930s describing the salient events and changes of the period up to the crisis and subsequent adoption of the currency board in 1983. Description of the functioning of the system after 1983 and its evolution then follow. The book concludes with an assessment of the performance of the currency board since 1983 and of Hong Kong's wider economic performance.

This book is designed to inform lay readers. Given the central role of monetary policy in the prosperity of Hong Kong business and its financial industries in particular this is a book of importance for all business people in Hong Kong. Describing a unique feature of the Hong Kong economy, it is essential reading for all students of economics. ... Read more

Product Description
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

Product Description
"Like an underground stream which rarely comes to the surface but which nevertheless irrigates the countryside through which it flows, sterling runs through British history, from the Conquest up to the present day."

With this passage, Nicholas Mayhew begins his fascinating look at one of the worlds most storied, influential currencies. Sterling: The History of a Currency is both an absorbing account of the global impact of currency throughout the second millennium and an entertaining primer in financial history and theory.

Mayhew traces the path of sterling from its genesis around 1080, during the rule of William the Conqueror, through latter-day struggles to hold its own amidst the global retreat from precious metals standards and the still-developing Euro. Tales of laborers and merchants interweave with those of knights and kings to reveal the social fabric of European society in 1500. Passages from Adam Smiths 1776 classic The Wealth of Nations outline early but fundamental principles of banking. The dramatic increase in the early nineteenth-century supply of sterling, accompanied by its equally dramatic fall in value, is explored, and the evolution of money from silver and gold through paper, plastic, and electronic impulses is contrasted with social movements that have changed our need for, and relationship with, money.

"Sterling, like the English landscape, has evolved over the centuries, reflecting and sometimes leading to changes in the nations history, and also generating a sense of unchanging stability of fundamental importance to the national psyche."

The history of sterling is nothing less than the history of England and the world. Sterling tells that story with all the vividness and drama which its topic so richly deserves.

This profound book also travels far into the heart of mankinds physical and emotional relationship to currency. Whether you are a student of finance, history, psychology,or sociology, Sterling will leave you with a new appreciation for the central role a currency plays in the development of a nation—and the almost human qualities that currency often assumes as it ages, sometimes gracefully and sometimes fitfully, over the years and centuries.

Through the prism of one of the worlds venerated currencies . . . A fascinating portrait of world history

War . . . peace . . . prosperity . . . famine . . . throughout each of these historical phenomena, the common denominator is mankind—and money. Sterling: The History of a Currency traces the incredible history of England and the world over the past centuries through the ebb and flow of its chief currency, the pound sterling.

From the eleventh-century Domesday Book, with its surprisingly accurate accounting of the population and wealth of England, to the final days of the twentieth century, Sterling describes how England and its omnipresent standard of currency first ruled the globe, then struggled to find a place in an expanding, increasingly complex environment. Detailed photographs strikingly illustrate the lineage of English money over the past century while historical references, quotes, facts, and tales vividly portray the centuries-long partnership of England and sterling in the formation of a culture.

More than a simple recitation of economic facts and figures, Sterling represents a vibrant, lifelike portrait of the people and events that make up one of historys great nations—and the currency that was instrumental in its formation. As workers and farmers toiled to acquire it, merchants and landowners struggled to amass it, and kings and financiers conspired to control it, sterling wrote its own tale. It is a tale of money, power, and life itself, and one that bears scrutiny as we begin our new century. ... Read more

Product Description
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

Product Description
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio : HeerPublication date: 1915Subjects: Banks and banking -- OhioNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

Product Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

Product Description
Originally published in 1916.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

Product Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

Product Description
First published in 1937 ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Economics of Inflation
This book is a MUST READ by any serious investor particulary in our times.The author was an Italian economist stationed in Berlin during the whole Wiemar Republic.What more credible source does one want?

Yes, the book is heavy trudging. Yes, the language is antiquated by U.S. terms.But the graphs (oh, the graphs are STUPENDOUS) for they clearly demonstate how a fiat currency (e.g. the USD) can exponetually evaporate in very short order when people loose confidence in it.

The book clearly names some of the "winners", but the vast majortiy were "losers", because they did not forsee the problem and ACT on it.Again, it is "heavy sledging" but it a "Must READ" for those who not only want to survive but to be "winners".

Good book; a bit tough going without an economics degree
The English translation was published in 1937, so the language is a bit old fashioned, with terms like "milliard" instead of billion.Basically an advanced economics text, I found the going on this rather slow.Some of the graphs are really arresting, such as the one of the Deutchmark in late 1923 which looks scarily like the Nasdaq in 2000.
Bresciani-Turroni's chapter on the social implications of the Weimar inflation is compelling; his understanding of who profited mightily and who was ruined and why is powerful and timely at a moment when a number of world governments including the USA are busily printing money at a faster and faster clip.
The notion of finding scapegoats (speculators and foreigners), the government's unwillingness to take any responsibility for its actions (blame the foreigners), and the tremendous economic and social costs (suicide, malnutrition, crime, et al) of hyperinflation make for sober and enlightening reading.
However, the book is expensive. Perhaps the best recommendation I can make is that I often find myself returning to chapters in this book to help me understand current economic events.
... Read more