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Wheelan, Charles J.
Subjects
Money -- History.
Finance -- History.
Inflation (Finance)
Deflation (Finance)
Banks and banking, Central.
Foreign exchange rates.
Banks and banking -- History.
Gold standard.
Bitcoin.
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Naked money : a reve...
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Wheelan, Charles J.
Money -- History.
Finance -- History.
Inflation (Finance)
Deflation (Finance)
Banks and banking, Central.
Foreign exchange rates.
Banks and banking -- History.
Gold standard.
Bitcoin.
MARC Display
Naked
money
: a
revealing
look
at
what
it is and
why
it
matters
/ Charles Wheelan.
by
Wheelan, Charles J.
W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Call #:
332.4 W561n
Subjects
Money
-- History.
Finance -- History.
Inflation (Finance)
Deflation (Finance)
Banks and banking, Central.
Foreign exchange rates.
Banks and banking -- History.
Gold standard.
Bitcoin.
ISBN:
9780393069020 (hc.)
0393069028 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xx, 348 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
What
it is.
What
is
money
? ; Inflation and deflation ; The science, art, politics, and psychology of prices ; Credit and crashes ; Central banking ; Exchange rates and the global financial system ; Gold --
Why
it
matters
. A quick tour of American monetary history ; 1929 and 2008 ; Japan ; The Euro ; The United States and China ; The future of
money
; Doing central banking better.
Summary:
It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly
money
.
What
makes a $20 bill actually worth twenty dollars? The author of
Naked
Statistics and
Naked
Economics explores the colorful world of
money
and banking. How
money
creation is used to counter financial crises,
why
the shared European currency has caused so much trouble and how Bitcoin will impact the future.
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Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
332.4 W561n
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