The Mechanics of Money

Authors: Jacques Riboud



Table of contents (23 chapters)

Front Matter
Pages i-25

Introduction
Introduction
Pages 26-28

Three keys to monetary analysis
Front Matter
Pages 29-29
What is money?
Pages 31-33
How money works
Pages 34-38
Three keys to monetary analysis
Pages 39-41
The first key-Payment
Pages 42-47
The second key-Clearing
Pages 48-64
The third key-Reduction
Pages 65-82
Use of the three keys, first example-Banks and Non-banks
Pages 83-87
Use of the three keys, second example-Eurodollars and Eurodollar banks
Pages 88-99
Use of the three keys, third example-Investment on the basis of monetary creation
Pages 100-115

Monetary regulation and the monetary indicators
Front Matter
Pages 117-117
Nature abhors a vacuum
Pages 119-123
Monetarists and monetarians
Pages 124-131
The uncertainties of monetary regulation
Pages 132-154
A flaw in monetary thinking
Pages 155-165
The search for a new monetary indicator
Pages 166-180
Monetary creation and inflation
Pages 181-185
The taboo of inconvertibility
Pages 186-224

Composite currency units, their future and their shortcomings: the Eurostable
Front Matter
Pages 225-225
The implications of present-day monetary disorders
Pages 227-228
The International Monetary Fund and its Special Drawing Right
Pages 229-242
An American view of composite currency units
Pages 243-248
An extranational payment unit with constant purchasing power: the Eurostable
Pages 249-262
Thirty questions on the Eurostable
Pages 263-289
Epilogue
Pages 291-308

Back Matter
Pages 309-319