Two decades after its original publication, The Analysis of Household Surveys is reissued with a new preface by its author, Sir Angus Deaton, recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. This classic work remains relevant to anyone with a serious interest in using household survey...

Introduction -- Money -- The functions of money and money creation -- The nature of inflation -- The concept of interest -- The order of money and its consequences -- Blueprints for monetary reform -- Finance -- Debt and ownership -- The building blocks of modern finance -- The failures of...