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Table of Contents

Preface to the New Edition (1952)

Earlier prefaces

Part I The Nature of Money

I.1 The Function of Money

I.2 On the Measurement of Value

I.3 The Various Kinds of Money

I.4 Money and the State

I.5 Money as an Economic Good

I.6 The Enemies of Money

Part II The Value of Money

II.7 The Concept of the Value of Money

II.8 The Determinants of the Objective Exchange Value, or Purchasing Power, of Money

II.9 The Problem of the Existence of Local Differences in the Objective Exchange Value of Money

II.10 The Exchange Ratio Between Money of Different Kinds

II.11 The Problem of Measuring the Objective Exchange Value of Money and Variations in It

II.12 The Social Consequences of Variations in the Objective Exchange Value of Money

II.13 Monetary Policy

II.14 The Monetary Policy of Etatism

Part III Money and Banking

III.15 The Business of Banking

III.16 The Evolution of Fiduciary Media

III.17 Fiduciary Media and the Demand for Money

III.18 The Redemption of Fiduciary Media

III.19 Money, Credit, and Interest

III.20 Problems of Credit Policy

Part IV Monetary Reconstruction

IV.21 The Principle of Sound Money

IV.22 Contemporary Currency Systems

IV.23 The Return to Sound Money

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Appendix B

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Translator/Editor H. E. Batson, trans.
First Pub. Date 1912
Publisher Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, Inc. LibertyClassics
Pub. Date 1981
Comments First published in German. Foreword by Murray Rothbard and Introduction by Lionel Robbins not available online
Copyright The text of this edition is under copyright. Picture of Ludwig von Mises: file photo, Liberty Fund, Inc.
About this Book Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) first published The Theory of Money and Credit in German, in 1912. The edition presented here is that published by Liberty Fund in 1980, which was translated from the German by H. E. Batson originally in 1934, with additions in 1953. Only a few corrections of obvious typos were made for this website edition. One character substitution has been made: the ordinary character "C" has been substituted for the "checked C" in the name Cuhel.

The cuneiform inscription in the Liberty Fund logo is the earliest-known written appearance of the word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty." It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.

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