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Gold: The Once and Future Money (Agora Series)
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- Condition
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- Seller Notes
- “A tan to the pages. No dust jacket”
- Book Title
- Gold: The Once and Future Money (Agora Series)
- Genre
- Monetary economics
- ISBN
- 9780470047668
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Gold: the Once and Future Money
- Item Height
- 236mm
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons AND Sons LTD
- Item Width
- 169mm
- Subject
- Economics
- Item Weight
- 698g
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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For most of the last three millennia, the world?s commercial centers have used one or another variant of a gold standard. It should be one of the best understood of human institutions, but it?s not. It?s one of the worst understood, by both its advocates and detractors. Though it has been spurned by governments many times, this has never been due to a fault of gold to serve its duty, but because governments had other plans for their currencies beyond maintaining their stability. And so, says Nathan Lewis, there is no reason to believe that the great monetary successes of the past four centuries, and indeed the past four millennia, could not be recreated in the next four centuries. In Gold, he makes a forceful, well-documented case for a worldwide return to the gold standard. Governments and central bankers around the world today unanimously agree on the desirability of stable money, ever more so after some monetary disaster has reduced yet another economy to smoking ruins. Lewis shows how gold provides the stability needed to foster greater prosperity and productivity throughout the world. He offers an insightful look at money in all its forms, from the seventh century B.C. to the present day, explaining in straightforward layman?s terms the effects of inflation, deflation, and floating currencies along with their effect on prices, wages, taxes, and debt. He explains how the circulation of money is regulated by central banks and, in the process, demystifies the concepts of supply, demand, and the value of currency. And he illustrates how higher taxes diminish productivity, trade, and the stability of money. Lewis also provides an entertaining history of U.S. money and offers a sobering look at recent currency crises around the world, including the Asian monetary crisis of the late 1990s and the devastating currency devaluations in Russia, China, Mexico, and Yugoslavia. Lewis?s ultimate conclusion is simple but powerful: gold has been adopted as money because it works. The gold standard produced decades and even centuries of stable money and economic abundance. If history is a guide, it will be done again. Nathan Lewis was formerly the chief international economist of a firm that provided investment research for institutions. He now works for an asset management company based in New York. Lewis has written for the Financial Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, Japan Times, Pravda, and other publications. He has appeared on financial television in the United States, Japan, and the Middle East.
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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons AND Sons LTD
ISBN-13
9780470047668
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87821591
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Gold: the Once and Future Money
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Economics
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
236mm
Item Width
169mm
Item Weight
698g
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Series Title
Agora Series
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United Kingdom
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