TY - BOOK AU - Gerdes,William D. TI - Money and banking: an intermediate market-based approach T2 - Economics collection, AV - HG221 .G475 2014 U1 - 332.4 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) PB - Business Expert Press KW - Money KW - fiat money KW - interest rates KW - inflation and the secular decline in the value of money KW - seigniorage KW - Austrian views on money and interest rates KW - monetary policy and its shortcomings KW - Electronic books N1 - Part of: 2013 digital library; Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-156) and index; 1. Money and monetary systems -- 2. Money and income -- 3. Interest rates and financial markets -- 4. Central banks and the money supply -- 5. Monetary policy -- 6. Critiques of monetary policy -- Notes -- References -- Index; Access restricted to authorized users and institutions N2 - The premise of the author is that the study of money should commence at the most general level. Consequently, the book is anchored in the context of monetary systems (commodity, fiduciary, and fiat monies). The intent is to give the student of money a very broad perspective. It allows them to understand, for example, how the money we use today differs from money used in the past, or how our current money relates to money discovered by anthropologists in isolated subcultures UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aitie/detail.action?docID=1520756 ER -