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1 online resource |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
"Explore the inevitable collapse of the fiat monetary systemPaper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown, Second Edition challenges the mainstream consensus on money and monetary policy. While it is today generally believed that the transition from 'hard' and inflexible commodity money (such as a gold standard) to entirely flexible and potentially unlimited fiat money under national central banks allows for superior economic stability, Paper Money Collapse shows that the opposite is true. Systems of highly elastic and constantly expanding money are not only unnecessary, even for growing economies, they are always extremely destabilizing. Over time, they must lead to substantial imbalances, including excessive levels of debt and distorted asset prices, that will require ever faster money production to sustain. Ultimately, however, there is no alternative to a complete liquidation of these distortions. Based on insights of many renowned economists and in particular of the Austrian School of Economics, the book explains through rigorous logic and in precise language why our system of flexible fiat money is incompatible with a market economy and therefore unsustainable. Paper money systems have always led to economic disintegration--without exception--throughout history. It will not be different for our system and we may be closer to the endgame than many think. The updated second edition incorporates: A new introduction and an extended outlook section that discusses various "endgames" Responses to criticisms, alternative views, and a critical assessment of 'solutions' Comments on recent policy trends, including attempts to exit the 'easy money' policy mode An evaluation of new crypto-currency Bitcoin Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money, Second Edition clarifies the problem of paper money clearly and eloquently, and proposes multiple routes to a solution"-- Provided by publisher |
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"This book illustrates the underlying problems with elastic money"-- Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
Prologue: Contra the Mainstream Consensus -- pt. One: The Basics of Money. Ch. 1 The Fundamentals of Money and Money Demand -- Ch. 2 The Fundamentals of Fractional-Reserve Banking -- pt. Two: The Effects of Money Injections. Ch. 3 Money Injections without Credit Markets -- Ch. 4 Money Injections via Credit Markets -- pt. Three: Fallacies about the Price Level and Price Level Stabilization. Ch. 5 Common Misconceptions Regarding the Price Level -- Ch. 6 The Policy of Stabilization. |
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pt. Four: A History of Paper Money and How We Got to Where We Are Now. Ch. 7 A Legacy of Failure -- pt. Five: Beyond the Cycle -- Paper Money's Endgame and The Future of Money. Ch. 8 The Beneficiaries of the Paper Money System -- Ch. 9 The Intellectual Superstructure of the Present System -- Ch. 10 Endgames -- Inflationary Meltdown or Return to Hard Money? -- Epilogue: Money, Freedom, and Capitalism. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Paper money.
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Money supply.
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Currency question.
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Credit.
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Crédit. |
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credit. |
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Credit |
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Currency question |
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Money supply |
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Paper money |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Schlichter, Detlev S., 1964- Paper money collapse. Second Edition. Hoboken : Wiley, 2014 9781118877326 (DLC) 2014012694 |
| ISBN |
9781118877333 (electronic bk.) |
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1118877330 (electronic bk.) |
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9781118877364 (electronic bk.) |
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1118877365 (electronic bk.) |
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(hardback) |
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40023892998 |
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