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020			_a978-0-470-04766-8 _c9780
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037			_fХандив
040			_cУА
041			_aENG
042			_a4276
082			_2ДАА
082			_a332.4'042
082			_bL-50
100			_aLewis, Nathan
245		0	_aGold:the once and future money
250			_a0
260			_aCanada _bJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc _c2007
300			_a447
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500			_aFor most of the last three millennia, the world's commercial centers have used one or another variant of a gold standard. It should be one of the best understood of human institutions, but it's not. It's one of the worst understood, by both its advocates and detractors. Though it has been spurned by governments many times, this has never been due to a fault of gold to serve its duty, but because governments had other plans for their currencies beyond maintaining their stability. And so, says Nathan Lewis, there is no reason to believe that the great monetary successes of the past four centuries, and indeed the past four millennia, could not be recreated ...
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520			_aFor most of the last three millennia, the world's commercial centers have used one or another variant of a gold standard. It should be one of the best understood of human institutions, but it's not. It's one of the worst understood, by both its advocates and detractors. Though it has been spurned by governments many times, this has never been due to a fault of gold to serve its duty, but because governments had other plans for their currencies beyond maintaining their stability. And so, says Nathan Lewis, there is no reason to believe that the great monetary successes of the past four centuries, and indeed the past four millennia, could not be recreated ...
653			_aMonetary policy
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