Money, Sound and Unsound

Index

INDEX

A

appraisement, Mises on, 183

Argentina

confiscatory deflation, 294–299

currency boards, 527–530

Austrian School. See also Hayek; Menger; Mises; Rothbard

and Chicago School, 591–594

coordination, 181–197

deflation with application to the U.S., 267–314

current influence, xxi–xxii

depressions: comments on Tullock’s viewpoint, 315–321

inflation, 549

long-run general equilibrium, 210

Menger’s contribution to, 44

monetary theory, 53–56, 153–165, 592

money and gold in 1920s and 1930s, 421–439

October stock market crash, 449–467

purchasing-power-parity (PPP) theory, 163

recession Greenspan, 556–558

Tullock on Austrian business-cycle theory, 317–320

Turgot’s ideas, 42

value of money, 271

B

balance of payments, 167–179

as a monetary phenomenon, 87, 168, 170

Currency School, 422

gold standard: price changes and balance-of-payments adjustment, 171, 405–409

bank credit deflation, 276–294

bank runs, 276–294

deflationary monetary policy, 278–294

bank deposits, currency principle, 501

bank runs

bank credit deflation, 276–278

history of before World War II, 276

banking school, xii

barter economies, interest and future price movements, 83

Bernanke, Ben S.

about, 567

deflation fears, 559–562

bi-metallic standard, xiii-xiv

Black Monday, 449–467

Blinder, Alan, on Greenspan, 536

Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen von, monetary theory, 45–47

British Currency School (BCS), 500

bullionists, on sound money, xii

business cycle

Austrian theory about, 54, 455, 466

discount rate and gold reserves, 508

Great Depression, 571–580

Greenspan, 536

transmitting between countries, 417

C

calculation. See also monetary calculation

socialist calculation debate: ex-Communist Europe, 467–469

calculational chaos, 467, 472

Cannan, Edwin, resource reallocation in war economy, 241

capital

consumption of during wartime, 258

and monetary calculation: Menger, 45

Rothbard’s Equation, 141

capital flight, 512, 518

capital goods, wartime, 250, 255

capital markets

transmitting business cycle from country to country, 417

years 1982–1987, 455–457

cash-balance approach, market demand for money, 50

cash-building deflation, 274–276

Cassel, Gustav

compared to Mises, 105

PPP theory: comparison to Mises, 160–163

central banks. See also Conversion Agency; currency boards; Federal Reserve; national reserve system; reserves

currency principle, 507–520

Law’s ideas for, 3, 11

lender-of-last-resort role, 515

certificates of deposit (CDs), as money, 125

checking account balances, as money, 118

Chicago School, and Austrian School, 591–594

China, deflation experience: years 1998–2001, 273

command-and-control economy, during wartime, 245

commodity markets

Rothbard’s Equation, 137

sensitivity to monetary conditions, 299–301

commodity money

Argentina demonetization, 297

gold standard, 329, 330–351

resource costs of, 27–30

restoring, 288–293

common measure of all values function of money, 38–41

communism, ex-Communist Europe, 467–496

confiscatory deflation, 294–299

consumer goods, prices: years 1982–1987, 452–454

contractionary monetary policy, bank credit deflation, 278–294

Conversion Agency, 488, 491, 492

coordination. See also price coordination

Austrian School, 181–197

costs

interest rate as cost of holding money, 83

opportunity costs: holding cash balances, 81

credit money, defined, 69

credit transactions, Rothbard’s Equation, 143

cross price elasticities of demand for and between commodities and money, 138

crowding out effect, wartime, 252

currency boards, 497–533

as a national reserve system, 517–519

anti-deflation policy, 510–516

central banks, 507–520

Hong Kong, 519–530

national reserve system, 502–507

theory of currency crises, 499–502

currency principle, central banks, 507–520

Currency School, inflation, business cycle and gold standard, xii–xiii, 424

D

data

Greenspan’s use and analysis of, 537, 540

Rothbard, 599

deflation, 267–314. See also inflation 1987, 459–463

anti-deflation policy, 510–516, 564–566

bank credit deflation, 276–294

cash-building deflation, 274–276

China: years 1998–2001, 273

classical gold standard, 388

confiscatory deflation, 294–299

defined, 270

depression, 595–602

fallacies, 299–308

gold standard: inflation and deflation in an open economy, 410–414

Greenspan and the Federal Reserve, 558–566

growth deflation, 272–274

Keynesian redefinition, 270

macroeconomic stability and sound money, 477

phobia about, 559

price deflation in electronics and other high-growth industries, 272

under common international money, 156

U.S. early 1930s, 433

U.S mid 1930s: Timberlake, 434

U.S. prospects for, 308–311

deflationary monetary policy, bank credit deflation, 278–294

demand deposits, as money, 118, 127, 446

demand for money

exchange demand for money, 272

regression theorem, 73–87

demonetization, Argentina, 297

deposit insurance, role in creating money, 118

depressions

deflation, 595–602

Great Depression, 571–580, 596

Tullock: comments on, 315–321

devaluation, Swiss franc in 1936, 516

discount rate, business cycle and gold reserves, 508

disequilibrium. See equilibrium

distribution effects, real balance effects: Mises, 79

dollar-exchange standard, 487

E

economic fascism, war and inflation, 259–263

Edwards, James Rolph

inflationary process, 202

review of Mises monetary theory, 63, 65–77, 84, 87–94, 104

Eichengreen, Barry, gold standard, 575

elasticities, price elasticities of demand for and between commodities and money, 138

employment. See also Phillips curve

effects of inflation: Mises, 209

entrepreneurial forecasting

ability of entrepreneurs to forecast changes emanating from money side of economy, 193

social appraisement process: Hutt, 184, 189

Equation of Exchange, 478, 480

equations. See also Rothbard’s Equation

equilibrium

balance of payments, 155, 178

individual actors versus interindividual equilibrium in balance-of-payments analysis, 174

long-run general equilibrium: Austrian School on, 210

momentary states of rest, 141

monetary equilibrium, 159, 169, 170

price coordination, 182

price equilibrium, 186

purchasing power of money, 158

Rothbard’s Equation, 134

sustainability of disequilibrium in Hong Kong, 523

Turgot on, 41

ex-Communist Europe, 467–496

exchange demand for money, 272

exchange rates

in 100% gold standard, 350

fixed exchange rates, 161, 490

gold standard: fluctuating exchange rates and autonomy of national monetary policy, 414–418

instability of in 1930s: Mises on, 72

Keynes on price level and exchange rates, 403

Mises on, 104–110

monetary adjustment process, 87–111

as a monetary phenomenon, 87

exchange tokens

money as: based on John Law, 4, 17–22

Turgot on money as, 34

exchanges rates, purchasing power of money (PPM), 159

expectations

inflation, 214–231, 544

themology, 219

F

fascism. See economic fascism

federal deposit insurance, role in creating money, 118

Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), Greenspan, 542

Federal Reserve

1920s and 1930s, 431–434

Black Monday crisis, 449–467

deflation and Greenspan, 558–566

gold reserves, 573

Greenspan, 541

Laffer’s gold price rule, 380

price-level rule and deflation, 305

private gold standard: Timberlake, 392

relationship with U.S. Treasury, 287

reserve requirements: raising 1936 and 1937, 436

role in averting deflation, 302

Timberlake, 429–434

Timberlake’s private gold standard, 396

Ferguson, J. David, Great Depression, 576–580

fiat money, measurement of, 116

final state of rest (FSR), compared to WSR, 100, 103

financing, war, 243–259

Fisher, Irving, xv-xvi

Fisherian Equation of Exchange, 88

fixed exchange rates, problems with, 161

FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee), Greenspan, 542

foreign exchange markets sound money, 486

years 1982–1987, 458

foreign exchange reserves, money supply, 520

fractional-reserve banking

John Law, 9

Turgot, 37

free banking

about, 479

Austrian School, 55

Timberlake’s private gold standard, 394

Friedman, Milton

100 percent gold standard, 334

Anna Schwartz, on the Great Depression, xxv

monetarism, xviii

money supply, 426

price stabilization, 24, 26

pseudo gold standard, 366

resource cost of money, 28

FSR (final state of rest), compared to WSR, 100, 103

full employment, Keynesians and monetarists, 23

G

Gavin, William T., role of money, 592

German hyperinflation

expectations, 222, 225–231

Mises on, 110

Germany, Nazi economic system, 260

gold

Bernanke on, 561

and currency competition: years 1865–1879, 581–590

Currency School, 422

Great Depression: monetarists and Keynesians, 571–580

money and gold in 1920s and 1930s: Austrian School, 421–439

sensitivity to monetary conditions, 299–301

suitability as money, 7, 29

gold reserves

centralization of, 278

discount rate and business cycle, 508

gold standard, 323–419

1920s, xvi, 510

abolition of, xiv

balance of payments, 171

classical gold standard, 384–391, 502

exchange rates and monetary policy, 414–418

Friedman on, 28

genuine 100% gold standard, 330–351, 355–365, 492

gold-certificate reserve, 377–379

gold-exchange standard, 573

gold price rule, 365–368, 379–384

inflation and deflation in an open economy, 410–414

Mises on, 474

monetarists on, 16

monetary reform, 323–353

NCS theory, 509

parallel private gold standard, 391–399

price changes and balance-of-payments adjustment, 405–409

proposals for, 375–401

restoring, 288–293

supply-siders on, 16

government borrowing, wartime, 253

Great Britain, Federal Reserve assistance during the 1920s and early 1930s, 431

Great Depression, 571–580, 596

Austrian perspective, xvi

Greenspan, Edward

New Economy, xix

performance of, 535–553, 555–569

growth deflation, 272–274

H

Hall, Thomas E., Great Depression, 576–580

Hayek, F.A

balance of payments, 408

Federal Reserve and deflation, 303

inflation and deflation, 283

macroeconomic instability, 333

national reserve system, 505–507

Hayekians, human learning and interindividual knowledge-diffusion process, 223

Hazlitt, Henry, private parallel gold standard, 396

Heilperin, Michael A., foreign monetary policies, 415–417

Higgs, Robert, government economic intervention in wartime, 245

hoarding

entrepreneurial appraisements, 192

gold standard, 338

Keynesians on, 1

Law on, 5

price deflation, 274

Hong Kong, currency board system, 519–527

hot money, anti-deflation policy, 510–516

Humphrey, Thomas J., relative and real output effects of inflation, 206

Hutt, William H.

social appraisement process, 187

on valuing and pricing, 213

hyperinflation

Austrian School, 53

German hyperinflation and expectations, 225–231

Hazlitt’s parallel private gold standard, 398

I

income effects, meaningfulness of, 138

inflation, 199–265. See also deflation; Phillips curve

Austrian business-cycle theory, 455

caused by price-level rule, 305

classical gold standard, 388

expectations, 214–231, 544

German hyperinflation, 225–231

gold price rule, 382

gold standard: inflation and deflation in an open economy, 410–414

Greenspan, 540, 544–546, 563

Keynesian redefinition, 270

long-run nonneutrality of money, 202–204

meaning of, 422–424, 441–447

as means of obtaining money income, 332, 376

paper fiat money, 117

prior to Black Monday crisis, 452–454

process: Mises versus quantity theory, 204–214

rational expectations hypothesis, 218

role of labor unions in, 211–213

savings deposits role in: Mises, 72

Timberlake: a reply to, 441–448

under common international money, 156

and war, 237–265

years 1982–1987, 449–454

instantaneous consumption cost, 81

institutions. See also central banks; Conversion Agency; currency boards; Federal Reserve; national reserve system

1920s and 1930s, 428–434

interest, natural rate of: Turgot, 41

interest forgone cost, about, 81

interest rate

as cost of holding money, 83

Law on, 6

wartime, 252, 254

interspatial equalization

purchasing power of money (PPM), 156

value of money and determination of exchange rates, 87–111

intertemporal coordination, Garrison, 181

J

Jastram, Roy W., on gold standard, 326

job market, impact of a rise in liquidity preferences, 193–196

K

Keynes, John Maynard

cause of depressions, xvii–xviii

motives for holding money, 17

on price level and exchange rates, 403

stabilization of money-wages, 22

Keynesians

government deposits as money, 128

and monetarists: Great Depression, 571–580

money as a policy tool, 13, 17

Phillips curve, 22

redefinition of inflation and deflation, 270

return of, xx–xxi

spending doctrine, xvii–xviii

L

L (liquidity), components of, 126

labor unions, in inflationary process, 211–213

Lachmann, L.M, expectations compared to thymological method, 219–223

Laffer, Arthur, gold price rule, 379–384

land, Law on land at the basis for currency, 8, 10

land rents, Turgot on, 39

large-denomination time deposits, as money, 126

Law, John, 1–31

about, 1–3

fractional-reserve banking, 9

monetary assumptions, 3–8

monetary reform, 10–12

money as a policy tool, 13–17

money as an exchange token, 17–22

money supply as a political monopoly, 30

price level stabilization, 22–27

resource costs of commodity money, 27–30

Lehrman, Lewis, classical gold standard, 384–391

lender-of-last-resort role, central banks, 515

Lerner, Abba P., money as policy instrument, 18

life insurance reserves, 427

liquidity (L), components of, 126

liquidity preferences, impact of a rise in, 194

location. See spatial element

Luskin, Donald L.

pricing process and ensuring that optimal quantities of goods are produced, 303

role of Federal Reserve in averting deflation, 302

M

M1

Argentina: years 1991–1994, 295

components of, 67–69, 118–120

following Black Monday crisis, 463

pre-Friedman quantity theorists, 591

M2

components of, 120–126

empirical measurement of, 140

post-World War I experience, 281

M3, components of, 126

Machlup, Fritz, gold standard, 510

macroeconomic stability. See also business cycle; deflation; depressions; equilibrium; inflation; monetary policy

Atkeson-Kehoe study, 599

coordination as an organizing principle, 181–197

gold standard, 414

macroeconomic instability: Hayek, 333

relative prices and stabilizing macroeconomic aggregates: Mises, 482

sound money, 477

Makin, John H., Federal Reserve and deflation, 306

Marget, Arthur W., on analysis of momentary positions of rest, 97–101

markets. See capital markets; foreign exchange markets; money markets

Menger, Carl

as foundation for Mises’ work, 65

monetary theory, 43–45, 592

Mints, A., price stabilization, 26

Mises, Ludwig von

appraisement, 183

classical gold standard, 387, 474, 484–494

currency principle, 498, 502

foreign exchange markets, 458

free market commodity money, 329

inflation and deflation, 285–287

inflation and expectations, 201–236

lost gold reserves by central banks, 508

monetary approach to balance of payments, 167–179

monetary theory, 47–49, 61–114

money and calculation, 470

national reserve system, 505, 514–516

PPP theory: comparison to Cassel, 160–163

relative prices and stabilizing macroeconomic aggregates, 482

sound money, 484

The Theory of Money and Credit, xv–xvi

MMDAs (money market deposit accounts), as money, 123

momentary equilibrium. See plain state of rest

momentary states of rest, equilibrium, 141

monetarists. See also Friedman

central bank monopolies, 30

on gold standard, 16

and Keynesians: Great Depression, 571–580

money as a policy tool, 14, 20

price stabilization, 24, 26

quantity rule, 15

velocity of money, 20

monetary adjustment process, monetary theory, 87–111

monetary calculation

Menger, 45

Mises, 48

monetary theory, 51–53

social production process: Böhm-Bawerk, 45

and sound money, 469–475

monetary deflation, 1987, 459–463

monetary equilibrium

equilibrium, marginal utility theory of money, 169

how quickly established, 159

monetary policy

contractionary or deflationary, 278–294

gold standard: fluctuating exchange rates and autonomy of national monetary policy, 414–418

Heilperin on foreign monetary policies, 415–417

money as a policy tool: based on John Law, 13–17

need for with sound money, 488

private gold standard: Timberlake, 392

Turgot, 35

monetary reform, Law, 10–12

monetary theory, 1–179

Austrian School, 53–56, 153–165

balance of payments: Mises on Yeager, 167–179

Böhm-Bawerk, 45–47

Law, 1–31

Menger, 43–45

Mises, 47–49, 61–114

monetary adjustment process, 87–111

monetary calculation, 51–53

money prices, 131–151

money supply, 65–73

Phillips curve, 51

regression theorem and demand for money, 73–87

Rothbard, 49–51

True Money Supply, 115–130

Turgot, 31–43

money. See also gold standard; sound money

as a catallactic institution, 49

as a measure of value, 24

as a policy tool, 4, 13–17, 368–372

as a social institution, 368–372

commodity money, 27–30

common measure of all values function, 38–41

compared to other economic goods, 336

credit money, 69

defined, 425

as distinguished from non-monetary commodities: Mises, 91

as an exchange token, 4, 17–22, 34

functions of: based on Turgot, 32–35

as medium of exchange, 24, 592

Mises on types of, 66

nonneutrality of, 36

quality of and price controls, 370

savings deposits as, 71

money market deposit accounts (MMDAs), as money, 123

money market funds, 100 percent gold standard, 363

money market mutual fund (MMMF) share accounts, as money, 123–125

money markets, Rothbard’s Equation, 137

money prices, 131–151

quantity theory of money, 146–149

Rothbard’s Equation, 132–143

Say’s Law and Rothbard’s Equation, 144–146

money supply. See also True Money Supply

as a political monopoly, 30

1930s, 437

empirical measurement of, 140, 425

measuring in relation to foreign exchange reserves, 520

monetary theory: Edwards review of Mises, 65–73

ownership, 3

Rothbard, 425

U.S. 1990–2004, 310

monopoly

money supply as a political monopoly, 30, 371

use of, 333

N

national reserve system. See also central banks; Conversion Agency; currency boards; Federal Reserve; reserves

about, 502–507

classical gold standard, 388

currency boards as, 517–519

hot money, 513

institutional framework of financial markets, 504

Nazi Germany, economic system, 260

Negotiable Order of Withdrawal (NOW), as money, 118

Neo-Currency School (NCS)

gold standard, 509

theory of currency crises, 499–502

neo-Keynesians. See Keynesians

neutral money, versus sound money and stable money, 475–484

nonneutrality of money

inflation, 202–204

Mises demonstration of, 78

Turgot on, 36

NOW (Negotiable Order of Withdrawal), as money, 118

O

October stock market crash, Austrian School viewpoint, xxv–xxvi, 449–467

open economies, gold standard: inflation and deflation, 410–414

open-market operations, private gold standard: Timberlake, 393

opportunity costs, holding cash balances: Mises, 81

overnight Eurodollars, as money, 123

overnight repurchase agreements (RPs), as money, 122

ownership, money supply, 3

P

paper fiat money, measurement of, 116

Patinkin’s individual-experiment, 84–86

Phillips curve

Mises’ explanation, 209

monetary theory, 51

stability of, 22

plain saving cost, 81

plain state of rest (PSR), defined: Mises, 94

policy. See also monetary policy

anti-deflation policy, 510–516

money as policy tool, 13–17, 368–372

PPM. See purchasing power of money

PPP. See purchasing-power-parity

price controls

quality of money, 370

wartime, 259

price coordination

about, 182

Böhm-Bawerk’s initial formulation of, 47

price equilibrium, Wicksteed, 185–186

price rule, supply-siders, 21, 27, 478

price-specie-flow adjustment mechanism, balance of payments, 406

prices. See also deflation; inflation; money prices

benefits of falling prices, 338

consumer goods: 1982–1987, 452–454

elasticity of demand for and between commodities and money, 138

and foreign exchange markets, 458

gold price rule, 365–368, 379–384

Keynes on price level and exchange rates, 403

Law on, 6

MMMFs effects on, 125

of money itself, 476

and nonneutrality of money, 37

price-level rule, 305

pricing process and ensuring that the optimal quantities of goods are produced, 303

relative price effects of inflation, 206

Say’s Law, 144

secular decline of, 29

sensitivity of gold and commodity prices to monetary conditions, 299–301

social appraisement process: Hutt, 188

speculative appraisement of, 185

stability under gold standard, 339

stabilization: based on Law, 8, 22–27

Turgot on, 36

wartime, 250

private fractional-reserve. See free banking

progression theorem, Rothbard, 49

PSR (plain state of rest), defined: Mises, 94

purchasing power of money (PPM)

equilibrium, 158

exchanges rates, 159

interspatial equalization, 156

Rothbard’s Equation, 136

spatial dimension, 161

purchasing-power-parity (PPP) theory

Austrian School, 163

Mises on, 104, 106–108

Q

quantity rule

and government monopoly over money, 334

monetarists, 15

quantity theory of money

inflation: Mises on, 204–214

introduction of, xiv–xv

money prices, 146–149

Viner on, 14

R

rabattage effect, 289–292

rational expectations hypothesis, inflation adjustment process, 218

real balance effects, distribution effects: Mises, 79

redistribution of income and wealth from inflation, Mises, 205

reform, monetary reform: Law, 10–12

regression theorem, demand for money, 73–87

reserves. See also central banks; Federal Reserve; national reserve system

gold-certificate reserve, 377–379

life insurance reserves, 427

nationalization of, 503

resource costs, commodity money, 27–30

Reynolds, Alan, on gold price rule, 365

Rist, Charles, on Law, 2

Robbins, Lionel

gold standard, 511

inflation and deflation in open economies, 410

Rothbard, Murray N.

bank credit contraction, 287

data, 599

Great Depression, xxv, 580

industrial commodity prices and general deflation, 301

inflation, defined, 422, 441–445

monetary theory, 49–51

money supply, 425, 427, 446

sound money doctrine, xxi

Tullock on, 315–317

Rothbard’s Equation, money prices, 132–143

RPs (overnight repurchase agreements), as money, 122

S

savings bonds, as money, 126

savings deposits

as money, 120

as money substitutes, 71

national reserve system, 513–515

Say’s Law, Rothbard’s Equation, 144–146

Schumpeter, J.A., resource reallocation in war economy, 240

Schwartz, Anna, money supply, 426

Second Bank of the United States, bank credit deflation, 277

seignorage effect, 290

share accounts, 425

silver, Law on the suitability of gold and silver as currency, 7

Simons, Henry C.

price stability, 25

quantity theory of money, 14

small-denomination time deposits, as money, 125

social appraisement process

about, 184

coordination, 191

entrepreneurial forecasting, 189

Hutt on, 187

social institutions, money as, 368–372

socialist calculation debate, ex-Communist Europe, 467–469

sound money

attaining, 484–494

and monetary calculation, 469–475

theories of, xxi–xxii

versus stable money and neutral money, 475–484

spatial element

Mises on, 177

PPP theory, 161

quantity of goods, 157

stabilization, prices, 22–27

stable money, versus sound money and neutral money, 475–484

stagflation, 325

sterilizing gold, 1930s, 434–437

stock market

October stock market crash, 449–467

World War I stock market crisis, 253

substitution effects, meaningfulness of, 138

supply-siders

on gold standard, 16

price rule, 21, 27

role of money, 26

Swiss franc, devaluation in 1936, 516

T

taxation, 332, 375

taxes, wartime, 248–250

the Great Moderation, xix–xx

thymology

about, 216–220

German hyperinflation, 225, 230

Timberlake, Richard H.

inflation and money: a reply to, 441–448

money and gold, 421–439

private gold standard, 391–396

travelers’ checks, as money, 119

Treasury liabilities, as money, 126

True Money Supply (TMS), 115–130

L, 126

M1, 118–120

M2, 120–126

M3, 126

memorandum items, 127–129

Tullock, Gordon, depressions, 315–321

Turgot, A.R.J., 31–43

common measure of all values function of money, 38–41

fractional-reserve banking, 37

functions of money, 32–35

long-run equilibrium, 41

monetary policy, 35

nonneutrality of money, 36

U

unions. See labor unions

United States. See also Federal Reserve

bank credit deflation, 277

Black Monday crisis, 449–467

centralization of gold reserves, 278

deflation, 292–294, 308–314

gold debate, 323–353

U.S. government, World War II, 261

U.S. Savings Bonds, as money, 126

U.S. Treasury, relationship with Federal Reserve, 287

U.S. Treasury liabilities, as money, 126

U.S.S.R, War Communism: years 1918–1921, 246

V

values

common measure of all values function of money, 38–41

Law on the value of money and goods, 7

of money: Austrian School, 271

money and determination of exchange rates, 87–111

money as a measure of, 24

velocity of money, 19

vertical market supply curve, Rothbard’s Equation, 142

Viner, Jacob, quantity theory of money, 14

vouchers. See exchange tokens

W

wage rates, in deflation, 274

Walker, Francis A., on inflation, 423

war, 237–265

economic fascism, 259–263

economics of, 239–243

financing, 243–259

War Communism in U.S.S.R: years 1918–1921, 246

Weintraub, Robert E., gold-certificate reserve, 377–379

welfare effects, from additions to money stock: Mises, 80

Wicksteed, Phillip H., price equilibrium process, 185–186

Wicksteedian state of rest (WSR), about, 96, 100–103

Woodward, Bob, on Greenspan, 537, 539, 540, 543

World War I

end of the classical gold standard, 571, 573

stock market crisis, 253

World War II

Nazi Germany, 260

U.S. government, 261

Y

Yeager, Leland

balance of payments: Mises comments on, 167–179

classical gold standard, 390

test for assets that function as a medium of exchange, 445, 447