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: Jeremy Bentham |
Defence of Usury |
1787 |
| 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. 4 |
1790 |
| author: Pelatiah Webster |
Political Essays on the Nature and Operation of Money, Public Finances and Other Subjects |
1791 |
| author: Alexander Hamilton, editor: Henry Cabot Lodge |
The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 3 |
1791 |
| author: Henry Thornton, introduction: Friedrich August von Hayek |
An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain |
1802 |
| author: John Taylor |
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated |
1820 |
| author: Nassau William Senior |
Three Lectures on the Transmission of Precious Metals from Country to Country and The Mercantile Theory of Wealth |
1828 |
| author: William Leggett, editor: Theodore Sedgwick, Jr. |
A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett |
1840 |
| author: William Leggett, editor: Theodore Sedgwick, Jr. |
A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, vol. 1 |
1840 |
| author: William Leggett, editor: Theodore Sedgwick, Jr. |
A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, vol. 2 |
1840 |
| author: John Ramsay McCulloch |
Treatises and Essays on Subjects connected with Economic Policy with Biographical Sketches of Quesnay, Adam Smith & Ricardo |
1853 |
| 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: 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: Walter Bagehot |
Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market |
1873 |
| author: William Stanley Jevons |
Money and the Mechanism of Exchange |
1875 |
| author: Andrew D. White, author: Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay |
Fiat Money Inflation in France |
1876 |
| author: William Graham Sumner, editor: Albert Galloway Keller |
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays (corrected edition) |
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: Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, translator: William A. Smart |
Capital and Interest: A Critical History of Economic Theory |
1884 |
| author: J. Laurence Laughlin |
The History of Bimetallism in the United States |
1885 |
| author: Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, translator: William A. Smart |
The Positive Theory of Capital |
1889 |
| author: Edward Atkinson |
Taxation and Work: A Series of Treatises on the Tariff and the Currency |
1892 |
| author: William Graham Sumner, editor: Editor of the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin |
A History of Banking in all the Leading Nations, vol. 1 (U.S.A.) |
1896 |
| editor: Editor of the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, author: Henry Dunning MacLeod, author: Antoine E. Horn, author: John P. Townsend |
A History of Banking in all the Leading Nations, vol. 2 (Great Britain, Russian Empire, Savings-Banks in the U.S.) |
1896 |
| editor: Editor of the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, author: Pierre des Essars, author: Arthur Raffalovich, author: Byron Edmund Walker |
A History of Banking in all the Leading Nations, vol. 3 (France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Canada) |
1896 |
| editor: Editor of the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin |
A History of Banking in all the Leading Nations, 4 vols. |
1896 |
| 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: Knut Wicksell |
“The Influence of the Rate of Interest on Prices” |
1907 |
| author: Irving Fisher, assistant: Harry G. Brown |
The Purchasing Power of Money, its Determination and Relation to Credit, Interest and Crises |
1911 |
| author: Ludwig von Mises, translator: Harold E. Batson |
The Theory of Money and Credit |
1912 |
| author: Walter Bagehot, editor: Mrs. Russell Barrington |
The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot, vol. 2 (Historical & Financial Essays) |
1915 |
| author: Edwin Cannan |
“The Application of the Theoretical Apparatus of Supply and Demand to Units of Currency” |
1921 |
| author: Irving Fisher |
“Dollar Stabilization” |
1921 |
| author: Ludwig von Mises |
“Finance and Banking in the Austrian Empire and the Republic of Austria” |
1921 |
| author: Knut Wicksell, translator: Margarethe Langfeldt |
Vorlesungen über Nationalökonomie auf Grundlage des Marginalprinzipes. Vol. 2 Theoretischer Teil. Geld und Kredit |
1922 |
| author: Irving Fisher |
The Theory of Interest, as determined by Impatience to Spend Income and Opportunity to Invest it |
1930 |
| author: Vera C. Smith, foreword: Leland B. Yeager |
The Rationale of Central Banking and the Free Banking Alternative |
1936 |
| author: Ludwig von Mises, introduction: Bettina Bien Greaves, editor: Percy L. Greaves, Jr. |
On the Manipulation of Money and Credit: Three Treatises on Trade-Cycle Theory |
1978 |
| author: George A. Selgin, foreword: Lawrence H. White |
The Theory of Free Banking: Money Supply under Competitive Note Issue |
1988 |
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