On the Manipulation of Money and Credit
On the Manipulation of Money and Credit contains some of Mises’s most important and notable contributions to monetary and trade-cycle theories, credit, and banking. Serving as a precursor to Mises’s major work, Human Action, it includes essays that examine the stabilization of the monetary unit, and the superiority of the gold standard. This book also contains explanations of economic theory and its result in practice, and the consequences of the fluctuating purchasing power of paper money. On the Manipulation of Money and Credit explores the outcome of inflation, the result of the increase in the amount of money, and the emancipation of monetary value from the influence of government.
On the Manipulation of Money and Credit 3 essays:
- Stabilization of the Monetary Unit from the Viewpoint of Theory
- Monetary Stabilization and Cyclical Policy
- The Causes of the Economic Crisis
Table of Contents
- The Outcome of Inflation
- The Emancipation of Monetary Value from the Influence of Government
- The Return to Gold
- The Money Relation
- Comments on the "Balance of Payments" Doctrine
- The Inflationist Argument
- The New Monetary System
- The Ideological Meaning of Reform
- The Problem
- The Gold Standard
- The "Manipulation" of the Gold Standard
- "Measuring" Changes in the Purchasing Power of the Monetary Unit
- Fishers Stabilization Plan
- Goods-induced & Cash-induced Changes in the Purchasing Power of the Monetary Unit
- The Goal of Monetary Policy
- Stabilization of the Purchasing Power of the Monetary Unit & Elimination of the Trade Cycle
- Circulation Credit Theory
- The Reappearance of Cycles
- The Crisis Policy of the Currency School
- Modern Cyclical Policy
- Control of the Money Market; Business Forecasting for Cyclical Policy & the Business an
- The Aims & Method of Cyclical Policy
- The Nature & Role of the Market
- Cyclical Changes in Business Conditions
- The Present Crisis
- Is There a Way Out?