As modern economics began to emerge in the late 18th century the role of money and banks in the economy was quickly identified as a vital sector. It was especially important to establish what was the proper role of government in the issuing of coins and the regulation of interest rates and other banking activities.
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| author: Edwin Cannan |
“The Application of the Theoretical Apparatus of Supply and Demand to Units of Currency” |
1921 |
| author: Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, translator: William A. Smart |
Capital and Interest: A Critical History of Economic Theory |
1884 |
| author: John Taylor |
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated |
1820 |
| author: Jeremy Bentham |
Defence of Usury |
1787 |
| author: Irving Fisher |
“Dollar Stabilization” |
1921 |
| author: Henry Thornton, introduction: Friedrich August von Hayek |
An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain |
1802 |
| author: Andrew D. White, author: Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay |
Fiat Money Inflation in France |
1876 |
| author: Ludwig von Mises |
“Finance and Banking in the Austrian Empire and the Republic of Austria” |
1921 |
| author: William Graham Sumner, editor: Albert Galloway Keller |
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays |
1876 |
| author: William Graham Sumner |
A History of American Currency, with Chapters on the English Bank Restriction and Austrian Paper Money, to which is appended “The Bullion Report” |
1878 |
| author: J. Laurence Laughlin |
The History of Bimetallism in the United States |
1885 |
| author: Knut Wicksell |
“The Influence of the Rate of Interest on Prices” |
1907 |
| author: Walter Bagehot |
Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market |
1873 |
| author: William Stanley Jevons |
Money and the Mechanism of Exchange |
1875 |
| author: William Brough |
The Natural Law of Money: The Successive Steps in the Growth of Money traced from the Days of Barter to the Introduction of the Modern Clearing House and Monetary Principles examined in their Relation to Past and Present Legislation |
1896 |
| author: Michel Chevalier, translator: Richard Cobden |
On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold: The Commercial and Social Consequences which may ensue, and the Measures which it invites |
1859 |
| author: Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, translator: William A. Smart |
The Positive Theory of Capital |
1884 |
| author: Irving Fisher, assistant: Harry G. Brown |
The Purchasing Power of Money, its Determination and Relation to Credit, Interest and Crises |
1911 |
| author: Vera C. Smith, foreword: Leland B. Yeager |
The Rationale of Central Banking and the Free Banking Alternative |
1936 |
| editor: John Ramsay McCulloch, author: Henry Rice Vaughan, author: Sir Robert Cotton, author: Sir William Petty, author: Sir Isaac Newton, author: Matthew Raper |
A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on Money |
1856 |
| author: Irving Fisher |
The Theory of Interest, as determined by Impatience to Spend Income and Opportunity to Invest it |
1930 |
| author: Ludwig von Mises, translator: Harold E. Batson |
The Theory of Money and Credit |
1912 |
| author: Knut Wicksell, translator: Margarethe Langfeldt |
Vorlesungen über Nationalökonomie auf Grundlage des Marginalprinzipes. Vol. 2 Theoretischer Teil. Geld und Kredit |
1922 |
| author: Alexander Hamilton, editor: Henry Cabot Lodge |
The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 2 |
1788 |
| author: Alexander Hamilton, editor: Henry Cabot Lodge |
The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 3 |
1791 |
| author: Alexander Hamilton, editor: Henry Cabot Lodge |
The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 4 |
1790 |
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