The Mystery of Banking １７７页
Murray N. Rothbard Richardson & Snyder 1983

First Edition The Mystery of Banking
©1983by Murray N. Rothbard
Library of Congress
in publication Data:
1. Rothbard, Murray N.
2. Banking 16th Century-20th Century
3. Development of Modern Banking
4. Types of Banks, by Function, Bank Fraud and Pitfalls of Banking Systems
5. Money Supply. Inflation

Chapter I Money: Its Importance and Origins 1
1. The Importance of Money 1
2. How Money Begins 3
3. The Proper Qualifies of Money 6
4. The Money Unit 9
Chapter II What Determines Prices: Supply and Demand 15
Chapter III Money and Overall Prices 29
1. The Supply and Demand for Money and Overall Prices 29
2. Why Overall Prices Change 36
Chapter IV The Supply of Money 43
1. What Should the Supply of Money Be? 44
2. The Supply of Gold and the Counterfeiting Process 47
3. Government Paper Money 51
4. The Origins of Government Paper ,Money 55
Chapter V The Demand for Money 59
1. The Supply of Goods and Services 59

2. Frequency of Payment 60
3. Clearing Systems 63
4. Confidence in the Money 65
5. Inflationary or Deflationary Expectations 66
Chapter VI Loan Banking 77
Chapter VII Deposit Banking 87
1. Warehouse Receipts 87
2. Deposit Banking and Embezzlement 91
3. Fractional Reserve Banking 95
4. Bank Notes and Deposits 103

Chapter VIII Free Banking and The Limits on Bank Credit Inflation 111
Chapter X Central Banking: Determining Total Reserves 143
1. The Demand for Cash 143
2. The Demand for Gold 149
3. Loans to the Banks 150
4. Open Market Operations 154
Chapter XI Central Banking: The Process of Bank Credit Expansion 163
1. Expansion from Bank to Bank 163
2. The Central Bank and the Treasury 171
Chapter XII The Origins of Central Banking 179
1. The Bank of England 179
2. Free Banking in Scotland 185
3. The Peelite Crackdown, 1844-1845 187
Chapter XIII Central Banking in the United States The Origins 193

1. The Bank of North America and the First Bank of the United States 193
2. The Second Bank of the United States 199
Chapter IX Central Banking: Removing the Limits 127
Chapter XIV Central Banking in the United States
The 1820's to the Civil War
1. The Jacksonian Movement and the Bank War 209
2. Decentralized Banking from the 1830's to the Civil War 215
Chapter XV Central Banking in the United States
The National Banking System 221
1. The Civil War and the National Banking System 221
2. The National Banking Era and the Origins of the Federal Reserve System 230

Chapter XVI Central Banking in the United States
The Federal Reserve System 237
1. The Inflationary Structure of the Fed 237
2. The Inflationary Policies of the Fed 243
Chapter XVII Conclusion
The Present Banking Situation and What to Do About It 249
1. The Road to the Present 249
2. The Present Money Supply 254
3. How to Return to Sound Money 263
Notes 271

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