Table of Contents
List of figures, List of tables, Preface, Table of abbreviations. 1. Evolution of monetary arrangements 2. New monetary economics and commodity bundles: a critique of the Black-Fama-Hall system. 3. A measure of value independent of commodities: developing new monetary economics using the monetary theory of Schumpeter, Mises, and Wicksell. 4. Mind and monetary arrangements: a method to assess monetary heuristics in historical time. 5. Hanseatic monetary arrangements and the functional separation of money. 6. Seventeenth century banking: Amsterdamsche Wisselbank, Stockholms Banco, and their consequences for monetary evolution. 7. The emergence of the gold standard and the unification of the monetary functions: what happened to the functioning of the cashless payments system using bills of exchange? 8. Interwar monetary fragmentation and the gold standard restored: the crisis of 1929 compared with the crisis of 2008. 9. Heuristics in the evolution of units of account and media of exchange. 10. Monetary arrangements and the capital structure: some lessons from the lens of Lachmann and Lundberg. 11. Concluding remarks: how to avoid pathologies of money and credit. Index