On the Manipulation of Money & Credit

Ludwig von Mises (18811973) was the leading spokesman of the Austrian School of economics throughout most of the twentieth century. Bettina Bien Greaves is a former resident scholar and trustee of the Foundation for Economic Education and was a senior staff member at FEE from 1951 to 1999. Bettina Bien Greaves is a former resident scholar and trustee of the Foundation for Economic Education and was a senior staff member at FEE from 1951 to 1999.

Introduction; The Outcome of Inflation; The Emancipation of Monetary Value from the Influence of Government; The Return to Gold; The Money Relation; Comments on the "Balance of Payments" Doctrine; The Inflationist Argument; The New Monetary System; The Ideological Meaning of Reform; The Problem; The Gold Standard; The "Manipulation" of the Gold Standard; "Measuring" Changes in the Purchasing Power of the Monetary Unit; Fishers Stabilization Plan; Goods-induced & Cash-induced Changes in the Purchasing Power of the Monetary Unit; The Goal of Monetary Policy; Stabilization of the Purchasing Power of the Monetary Unit & Elimination of the Trade Cycle; Circulation Credit Theory; The Reappearance of Cycles; The Crisis Policy of the Currency School; Modern Cyclical Policy; Control of the Money Market ; Business Forecasting for Cyclical Policy & the Businessman; The Aims & Method of Cyclical Policy; The Nature & Role of the Market; Cyclical Changes in Business Conditions; The Present Crisis; Is There a Way Out?; Index.