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Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. A Theory of Monetary Institutions: 1.The evolution of money and banking; 2. Money and the state; Part II. TheUncertain Progress of Monetary Theory and Monetary Reform: 3. The classicaltheory of money; 4. The quantity theory of money; 5. The heyday of the goldstandard, 1879-1914; 6. The Great War, the Great Depression, and the goldstandard; 7. The Keynesian revolution and the monetarist counterrevolution;Part III. A Competitive Monetary Regime: 8. The competitive breakthrough; 9.Can competitive banking be safe and stable?; 10. Why we need a new monetaryregime; 11. A proposal for monetary reform; References; Index.