Chapter 2. A Theory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xiii
4. Tables xv
5. Preface xvii
6. Acknowledgments xxi
7. Part I. A Problemand Its Cure
8. Chapter 1. Introduction 3
9. Chapter 2. A Theory 15
10. Chapter 3. Our Philosophy of History 37
11. Part II. Ideas and Technologies
12. Chapter 4. Technology 45
13. Chapter 5. Medieval Ideas about Coins and Money 69
14. Chapter 6. Monetary Theory in the Renaissance 100
15. Part III. Endemic Shortages and “Natural Experiments”
16. Chapter 7. Clues 123
17. Chapter 8. Medieval Coin Shortages 131
18. Chapter 9. Medieval Florence 139
19. Chapter 10. Medieval Venice 160
20. Chapter 11. The Price Revolution in France 186
21. Chapter 12. Token and Siege Monies 216
22. Part IV. Cures and Side-effects
23. Chapter 13. The Age of Copper 227
24. Chapter 14. Inflation in Spain 230
25. Chapter 15. Copycat Inflations in Seventeenth-Century Europe 254
26. Chapter 16. England Stumbles toward the Solution 261
27. Chapter 17. Britain, the Gold Standard, and the Standard Formula Chapter 291
28. Chapter 18. The Triumph of the Standard Formula 306
29. Chapter 19. Ideas, Policies, and Outcomes 320
30. Part V. A Formal Theory
31. Chapter 20. A Theory of Full-Bodied Small Change 335
32. Chapter 21. The Model 337
33. Chapter 22. Shortages: Causes and Symptoms 350
34. Chapter 23. Arrangements to Eliminate Coin Shortages 366
35. Chapter 24. Our Model and Our History 373
36. Glossary 375
37. References 377
38. Legal Citations Index 393
39. Author Index 395
40. Subject Index 399