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CONTENTS

Prefaces

--- Foreword, by Murray N. Rothbard (1981) Full text

--- Preface to the {Link without Title} Edition

--- Introduction, by Lionel Robbins (1934)

--- Preface to the English Edition (1934)

--- Preface to the Second German Edition (1924)

Part One: The Nature of Money

---1. The Function of Money

---2. On the Measurement of Value

---3. The Various Kinds of Money

---4. Money and the State

---5. Money as an Economic Good

---6. The Enemies of Money

Part Two: The Value of Money

---7. The Concept of the Value of Money

---8. The Determinants of the Objective Exchange Value, or Purchasing Power, of Money

---9. The Problem of the Existence of Local Differences in the Objective Exchange Value of Money

---10. The Exchange Ratio Between Money of Different Kinds

---11. The Problem of Measuring the Objective Exchange Value of Money and Variations in It

---12. The Social Consequences of Variations in the Objective Exchange Value of Money

---13. Monetary Policy

---14. The Monetary Policy of Etatism

Part Three: Money and Banking

---15. The Business of Banking

---16. The Evolution of Fiduciary Media

---17. Fiduciary Media and the Demand for Money

---18. The Redemption of Fiduciary Media

---19. Money, Credit, and Interest

---20. Problems of Credit Policy

Part Four: Monetary Reconstruction

---21. The Principle of Sound Money

---22. Contemporary Currency Systems

---23. The Return to Sound Money

Appendix A: On the Classification of Monetary Theories

Appendix B: Translator's Note on the Translation of Certain Technical Terms

PUBLICATION HISTORY

1981: Indianapolis,. Ind. Liberty Classics . ISBN 0-913966-70-3. 541 pages. Hardcover. (Softcover ISBN 0-913966-71-1).

1978: Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Foundation For Economic Education .

1971: Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Foundation for Economic Education.

1953: New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press .

1934: London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. First translation (by Harold E. Batson) into English from the original German.

1924: 2nd edition in German.

1912: Vienna: ''Theorie des Geldes und der Umlaufsmittel''. ( 1914 review by J.M. Keynes ]

SEE ALSO

Austrian School

EXTERNAL LINKS

''The Theory of Money and Credit'', 1953 edition, Full text in HTML format ( also in PDF format ).

''The Theory of Money and Credit'', 1981 edition, Full text in HTML format

Foreword to the 1981 Edition by Murray Rothbard .