Full title: The big problem of small change / Thomas J. Sargent, Franc̜ois R. Velde.

Author/creator: Velde, François R, Sargent, Thomas J.

Date: 2002..

Call Numbers: N332.494/ 27

Record Identifier: 74Vvbkx4yqNb

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: p. cm., Pt. I. A Problem and Its Cure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A 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. The Price Revolution in France -- 12. Token and Siege Monies -- Pt. IV. Cures and Side-effects -- 13. The 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. The Triumph of the Standard Formula -- 19. Ideas, Policies, and Outcomes -- Pt. V. A Formal Theory -- 20. A Theory of Full-Bodied Small Change -- 21. The Model -- 22. Shortages: Causes and Symptoms -- 23. Arrangements to Eliminate Coin Shortages -- 24. Our Model and Our History.

Publishers: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2002.

Notes: Princeton economic history of the Western world. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 332.494

MMS ID: 991014926319702626