Money Matters : How Money and Banks Evolved, and Why We Have Financial Crises

Introduction -- 1 What is money? -- A History of Money and Banking -- 2 Money from the very beginning -- 3 Banks enter the scene -- 4 The dawn of modern banking -- 5 The creation of a paper currency -- 6 Modern banking comes of age -- 7 The role of banks in a modern economy -- II An Analysis of Financial Crises -- 8 The role of money and the logic of recessions -- 9 Describing financial crises -- 10 The mechanics of financial crises - part one -- 11 The mechanics of financial crises - part two -- 12 Fighting off financial crises -- 13 Preventing financial crises -- Further Reading -- References.