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Encyclopedia of money / Larry Allen.
LIBRA HG216 .A43 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Larry, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Money--Encyclopedias.
- Money.
- Genre:
- Encyclopedias.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-CLIO, [1999]
- Summary:
- From the ancient barter system to cyber credit, this reference work is an investment in fiscal literacy. Topics include the gold standard, international monetary systems, fiscal controls, and more.-- More than 300 entries describe the major innovations, experiments, triumphs, and disasters in the development of a viable medium of exchange-- Written for nonspecialists, the book avoids technical jargon and mathematics as it explains the mechanisms and intricacies of its subject
- Contents:
- Act for Remedying the Ill State of the Coin 1
- Aeginetan Silver Standard 2
- Alchemy 3
- Alexander the Great 4
- Almonds 6
- American Penny 6
- American Revolution Hyperinflation 7
- Ancient Chinese Paper Money 9
- Arab Dinar 10
- Argentine Hyperinflation 11
- Assignats 12
- Athenian Owls 12
- Attic Silver Standard 12
- Augustalis 14
- Augustan Monetary System 15
- Austrian Hyperinflation 16
- Automatic Transfer Service 16
- Ayr Bank 17
- Babylonian Grain and Silver Standard 19
- Balance of Payments 20
- Banco del Piazza del Rialto, Il 21
- Bank 21
- Bank Charter Act of 1833 21
- Bank Charter Act of 1844 22
- Bank Clearinghouses 23
- Bank of Amsterdam 24
- Bank of Deposit 25
- Bank of England 26
- Bank of France 28
- Bank of Japan 29
- Bank of Scotland 30
- Bank of Spain 31
- Bank of Venice 31
- Bank Rate 32
- Bank Restriction Act of 1797 32
- Banking Acts of 1826 33
- Banking School 34
- Barbados Act of 1706 34
- Barter 35
- Beer Standard of Marxist Angola 36
- Belgian Franc 37
- Belgian Monetary Reform 37
- Billon 38
- Bills of Exchange 38
- Bimetallism 39
- Bisected Paper Money 40
- Black Death 40
- Bland-Allison Silver Repurchase Act of 1878 41
- Blood Money 42
- Bolivian Hyperinflation 43
- Brazilian Hyperinflation 44
- Bretton Woods System 44
- Bride Money 45
- British Gold Sovereign 45
- Bronze Standard of Ancient Rome 46
- Byzantine Debasement 47
- Caisse d'Escompte 49
- Calderilla 50
- Cappadocia 50
- Carolingian Reform 50
- Case of Mixt Monies 51
- Cattle 52
- Cellini, Benvenuto 53
- Celtic Coinage 53
- Central Bank 54
- Certificate of Deposit 55
- Check 56
- Chilean Inflation 57
- Chinese Hyperinflation 57
- Chinese Knife Money 58
- Chinese Leather Money 59
- Chinese Silver Standard 60
- Clipping 61
- Cloth 62
- Cocoa Bean Currency 63
- Coconut Standard of Nicobars 63
- Code of Hammurabi 64
- Coinage Act of 1792 64
- Coinage Act of 1834 65
- Coinage Act of 1853 66
- Coinage Act of 1965 67
- Commodity Monetary Standard 68
- Commodity Money 69
- Confederate Hyperinflation 70
- Constantine I 71
- Consumer Price Index 73
- Copper 73
- Corinthian Silver Standard 74
- Corn Banks of Egypt 75
- Corso Forzoso 76
- Counterfeit Money 76
- Cowrie 77
- Credit Union Share Drafts (CUSD) 78
- Credole and Tratte 78
- Crime of '73 79
- Croesean Reform 79
- Cross Coinage 80
- "Cross of Gold" Speech 81
- Culture of Money 82
- Cupro-Nickel 84
- Currency Act of 1751 84
- Currency Act of 1764 85
- Currency Act of 1773 86
- Currency School 86
- Da Vinci, Leonardo 89
- Daric 90
- De a Ocho Reales 91
- Debit Card 92
- Decimal System 93
- Denarius 94
- Depository Institution Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 94
- Deutsche Bundesbank 95
- Deutsche Mark 96
- Dissolution of Monasteries 97
- Dollar 98
- Dollar Crisis of 1971 99
- Drachma 99
- Drum Money 100
- Duodecimal System 100
- Edict of Prices of a.d. 301 101
- Egyptian Copper Standard 102
- Electrum 102
- English Penny 102
- Equation of Exchange 103
- Euro Currency 104
- Eurodollars 105
- European Currency Unit 105
- European Monetary Union (EMU) 106
- Exchequer Bills 106
- Exchequer Orders to Pay 106
- Faust 109
- Feather Money of Santa Cruz 110
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) 111
- Federal Reserve System 111
- Fiat Money 112
- First Bank of the United States 112
- Fishhooks 113
- Fleetwood, William 114
- Florentine Florin 114
- Food Stamps 115
- Forced Savings 116
- Foreign Exchange Markets 117
- Forestall System 118
- Fort Knox 119
- Fractional Reserve System of Banking 120
- Franklin, Benjamin 120
- Free Banking 120
- Free Silver Movement 123
- French Franc 125
- French Livre 000
- French Revolution Hyperinflation 126
- Fur Money 126
- GDP Deflator 131
- German Hyperinflation 131
- Ghost Money 133
- Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933 133
- Goat Standard of East Africa 134
- Gold 135
- Gold Bullion Standard 136
- Gold Dust 136
- Gold Exchange Standard 137
- Gold Mark of Imperial Germany 137
- Gold Reserve Act of 1934 138
- Gold Rushes 139
- Gold Standard 141
- Gold Standard Act of 1900 143
- Gold Standard Act of 1925 144
- Gold Standard Amendment Act of 1931 145
- Goldsmith Bankers 146
- Gold-Specie-Flow Mechanism 147
- Great Bullion Famine 147
- Great Debasement 148
- Greek Monetary Maelstrom: 1914-1928 149
- Greenbacks 150
- Gresham's Law 151
- Guernsey Market House Paper Money 152
- Guns 153
- High-Powered Money 155
- House of St. George 155
- Human Heads 156
- Hungarian Post-World War I Hyperinflation 157
- Hungarian Post-World War II Hyperinflation 157
- Icelandic Saga Money 161
- Inconvertible Paper Standard 161
- Independent Treasury 162
- Indexation 163
- Indian Rupee 164
- Indian Silver Standard 164
- Inflation and Deflation 165
- Interest Rate 166
- International Monetary Conference of 1878 167
- International Monetary Fund 168
- Iron Currency 169
- Islamic Coinage 170
- Italian Lira 170
- Ivory 170
- Juilliard v. Greenman 173
- Knights of the Templars 175
- Labor Notes 177
- Land Bank System 177
- Larin 178
- Latin Monetary Union 179
- Law, John 180
- Law of the Maximum 181
- Leather Money 181
- Leather-Wrapped Money of Ancient Carthage 181
- Legal Reserve Ratio 182
- Legal Tender 183
- Lex Aternia-Tarpeia of 454 B.C. 185
- Lex Flaminia of 217 B.C. 186
- Liquor Money 187
- Liverpool Act of 1816 187
- Lombard Banks 187
- Lydian Coinage 188
- Macmillan Committee 191
- Mahogany Logs 191
- Manilla 191
- Maravedis 192
- Massachusetts Bay Colony Mint 192
- Massachusetts Bay Colony Paper Issue 193
- Mat Currency of Samoa 194
- Medici Bank 194
- Mercantilism 195
- Mexican Peso 196
- Milled-Edge Coinage 196
- Mississippi Bubble 197
- Mondex System 197
- Monetarism 197
- Monetary Aggregates 198
- Monetary Law of 1803 199
- Monetary Multiplier 200
- Monetary Theory 200
- Monetary Unions of Ancient Greece 000
- Money Market Mutual Fund Accounts 201
- Money Superstitions 202
- Moneyer 203
- Montesquieu 204
- Mosaic Silver Standard 205
- Mughal Coinage 206
- Nails 207
- National Bank Act of 1864 207
- Negotiable Order of Withdrawal Accounts 208
- New York Safety Fund System 209
- Oedipus Tyrannus 211
- Open Market Operations 212
- Operation Bernhard 213
- Optimal Currency Area 214
- Optional Clause 215
- Ottoman Empire Currency 215
- Pacific Coast Gold Standard 217
- Papal Coinage 218
- Phoenician Weight Standard 219
- Pig Standard of New Hebrides 220
- Plato 221
- Playing-Card Currency of French Canada 222
- Polish Hyperinflation 223
- Pontiac's Bark Money 223
- Postage Stamps 224
- Potin 225
- Potosi Silver Mines 225
- Pound Sterling 226
- POW Cigarette Standard 227
- Price Revolution in Late Renaissance Europe 228
- Private Paper Money in Colonial Pennsylvania 228
- Promissory Notes Act of 1704 229
- Propaganda Money 230
- Quattrini Affair 231
- Radcliffe Report 233
- Real Bills Doctrine 234
- Regulation Q 234
- Reichmark 234
- Rentenmark 234
- Report from the Select Committee on the High Price of Bullion 235
- Reserves 000
- Resumption Act of 1875 236
- Return to Gold: 1300-1350 237
- Rice Currency 238
- Riksbank 239
- Roman Aes 239
- Roman and Byzantine Law 239
- Roman Empire Inflation 240
- Rossel Island Monetary System 241
- Royal Bank of Scotland 242
- Rum Currency 243
- Russian Paper Money 243
- Russian Revolution Hyperinflation 243
- Russian Ruble 244
- Salt Currency 245
- Sandalwood 246
- Savings and Loan Bailout 246
- Sceattas 247
- Scottish Banking Act of 1765 247
- Sealed Coin Purses 248
- Second Bank of the United States 248
- Seigniorage 250
- Seizure of the Mint 250
- Shekels 251
- Sherman Silver Act of 1890 251
- Shillings 252
- Shinplasters 252
- Siege Money 254
- Silver 254
- Silver Certificates 255
- Silver Plate 255
- Silver Purchase Act of 1934 256
- Slave Currency 257
- Slave Currency of Ancient Ireland 258
- Snake 258
- Social Dividend Money of Maryland 259
- Solidus 260
- Solon 260
- Spanish Inconvertible Paper Standard 261
- Spanish Inflation of the Seventeenth Century 262
- Spartan Iron Currency 262
- Specie Circular 264
- Standard Drawing Rights 264
- State Notes 264
- Stop of the Exchequer 264
- Suffolk System 265
- Sugar Standard of the West Indies 266
- Suspension of Payments in War of 1812 267
- Sweden's Copper Standard 267
- Sweden's First Paper Standard 269
- Sweden's Paper Standard of World War I 270
- Swiss Banks 271
- Swiss Franc 272
- Symmetallism 272
- Tabular Standard in Massachusetts Bay Colony 275
- Taler 276
- Tallies 277
- Tea 278
- Temple Coinage in Ancient Greece 278
- Temple Moneychangers 279
- Temple of Juno Moneta 280
- Tobacco Notes 281
- Touchstone 281
- Trade Dollar 281
- Trapesite Banking 283
- Treasury Notes 283
- Trial of the Pyx 284
- Tzarist Russia's Paper Money 285
- United States Eagle 287
- Usury Laws 287
- Vales 289
- Value of Money 290
- Variable Commodity Standard 290
- Vellon 291
- Velocity of Money 292
- Venetian Ducat 293
- Virginia Colonial Paper Currency 294
- Virginia Tobacco Act of 1713 295
- Wage and Price Controls 297
- Wampumpeag 298
- Wendish Monetary Union 299
- Whale Tooth Money in Fiji 300
- Wildcat Banks 301
- Wizard of Oz 301
- World Bank 303
- Yap Money 305
- Yeltsen's Monetary Reform in Russia 306
- Yen 307
- Yuan 308.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-316) and index.
- OCLC:
- 41924748
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