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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter L Bernstein |
ISBN: | 0470287586 9780470287583 |
OCLC Number: | 476320411 |
Description: | 237 p. |
Contents: | Foreword by Paul A. Volcker. New Introduction. Original Introduction. Part One: The Money Problem. Chapter 1: Why Worry about Money and Gold? Chapter 2: Spending and Financing. Chapter 3: The Price of Money. Part Two: The Creation of Money. Chapter 4: Money in Hand and Money in the Bank. Chapter 5: The Business of Banking. Chapter 6: Bank Credit and Money. Part Three: The Control of Money. Chapter 7: The Federal Reserve System. Chapter 8: Federal Reserve Tools of Control. Chapter 9: Reserve Requirements. Chapter 10: Currency: A Complication. Part Four: Gold. Chapter 11: Gold at Home. Chapter 12: Gold Abroad. Part Five: Theory in Practice. Chapter 13: The Experience of 1938 to 1945. Chapter 14: The Experience of 1945 to 1963. Chapter 15: The Experience of 1966. Conclusion: Money and Gold in the Future. Appendix: Reading the Weekly Federal Reserve Statement. Bibliography. Acknowledgments. Index. |
Series Title: | Peter L. Bernstein's finance classics. |
Abstract:
In many ways, Bernstein's A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold can be seen as one long preface to his bestselling The Power of Gold. In A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold , Bernstein discusses the link that still exists between our money and gold and why.
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"This book reveals and discusses the link that still exists between money and gold." (Finance & Management Faculty, October, 2008)
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