Triumph Of The Bankers Book

	Tables and Graphs
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	"Smith's Law" and "Fisher's Equation of Exchange"	3
2	The Impracticality of a Gold or Silver Standard	9
3	The Undesirability of a Gold or Silver Standard	17
4	Low Growth Rates of Money Supply	23
5	More Rapid Growth Rates of Money Supply	29
6	Money as a Legal and Psychological Matter	37
7	Paper Money Created by Colonial Governments: Background and the Pennsylvania Experience	45
8	Paper Money Created by Colonial Governments: Other Examples and Summation	53
9	Paper Money Created by Private Banks in Eighteenth-Century Britain	59
10	Adam Smith on the Bank of England and Banking in General	67
11	Financing the War for Independence of the United States	73
12	The 1780s in the United States	83
13	The Constitution and Paper Money in the Early Decades of the United States	89
14	Money and Banking in Britain, 1792-1821	97
15	Money and Banking in Britain in the Later Nineteenth Century	105
16	The Bank of the United States and Other Matters, 1800-1836	113
17	The Discovery of Gold in California and Other Matters, 1836-1860	121
18	Union Financing of the Civil War, 1861-1863	129
19	Union Financing of the Civil War, 1864-1866	139
20	From War's End to the Resumption of Gold Payments, 1865-1879	149
21	Bimetallism and Populism, 1879-1896	161
22	Gold Discoveries and Other Matters, 1896-1914	171
23	The Period 1864-1914 Considered as a Whole	177
	Bibliography	183
	Index	189