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The big problem of small change /

"The Big Problem of Small Change offers the first credible and analytically sound explanation of how a problem that dogged monetary authorities for hundreds of years was finally solved. Thomas Sargent and Francois Velde examine the evolution of Western European economies through the lens of one...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sargent, Thomas J.
Otros Autores: Velde, François R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2002
Colección:Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. Problem and Its Cure
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theory
  • 3. Our Philosophy of History
  • pt. II. Ideas and Technologies
  • 4. Technology
  • 5. Medieval Ideas about Coins and Money
  • 6. Monetary Theory in the Renaissance
  • pt. III. Endemic Shortages and "Natural Experiments"
  • 7. Clues
  • 8. Medieval Coin Shortages
  • 9. Medieval Florence
  • 10. Medieval Venice
  • 11. Price Revolution in France
  • 12. Token and Siege Monies
  • pt. IV. Cures and Side-effects
  • 13. Age of Copper
  • 14. Inflation in Spain
  • 15. Copycat Inflations in Seventeenth-Century Europe
  • 16. England Stumbles toward the Solution
  • 17. Britain, the Gold Standard, and the Standard Formula
  • 18. Triumph of the Standard Formula
  • 19. Ideas, Policies, and Outcomes
  • pt. V. Formal Theory
  • 20. Theory of Full-Bodied Small Change
  • 21. Model
  • 22. Shortages: Causes and Symptoms
  • 23. Arrangements to Eliminate Coin Shortages
  • 24. Our Model and Our History.