An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

5   Monetary and banking thought, I: the early bullionist controversy

5.1  The restriction and the emergence of the bullionist controversy

5.2  The bullionist controversy begins

5.3  Boyd’s Letter to Pitt

5.4  The storm over Boyd: the anti-bullionist response

5.5  Henry Thornton: anti-bullionist in sheep’s clothing

5.6  Lord King: the culmination of bullionism

5.7  The Irish currency question

5.8  The emergence of mechanistic bullionism: John Wheatley

5.9  Notes