Money Matters: How Money and Banks Evolved, and Why We Have Financial Crises (Hardcover)

Introduction.- 1 What is money?.- I A History of Money and Banking.- 2 Money from the very beginning.- 3 Banks enter the scene.- 4 The dawn of modern banking.- 5 The creation of a paper currency.- 6 Modern banking comes of age.- 7 The role of banks in a modern economy.- II An Analysis of Financial Crises.- 8 The role of money and the logic of recessions.- 9 Describing ?nancial crises.- 10 The mechanics of ?nancial crises - part one.- 11 The mechanics of ?nancial crises - part two.- 12 Fighting o? ?nancial crises.- 13 Preventing ?nancial crises.- Further Reading.- References.