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　　For 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 in the next four centuries. In Gold, he makes a

forceful, well–documented case for a worldwide return to the gold

standard.

Governments and central bankers around the world today

unanimously agree on the desirability of stable money, ever more so

after some monetary disaster has reduced yet another economy to

smoking ruins. Lewis shows how gold provides the stability needed

to foster greater prosperity and productivity throughout the world.

He offers an insightful look at money in all its forms, from the

seventh century B.C. to the present day, explaining in

straightforward layman’s terms the effects of inflation, deflation,

and floating currencies along with their effect on prices, wages,

taxes, and debt. He explains how the circulation of money is

regulated by central banks and, in the process, demystifies the

concepts of supply, demand, and the value of currency. And he

illustrates how higher taxes diminish productivity, trade, and the

stability of money. Lewis also provides an entertaining history of

U.S. money and offers a sobering look at recent currency crises

around the world, including the Asian monetary crisis of the late

1990s and the devastating currency devaluations in Russia, China,

Mexico, and Yugoslavia.

Lewis’s ultimate conclusion is simple but powerful: gold has been

adopted as money because it works. The gold standard produced

decades and even centuries of stable money and economic abundance.

If history is a guide, it will be done again.

Nathan Lewis was formerly the chief international economist of a

firm that provided investment research for institutions. He now

works for an asset management company based in New York. Lewis has

written for the Financial Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, Japan

Times, Pravda, and other publications. He has appeared on financial

television in the United States, Japan, and the Middle East.

Foreword by Addison Wiggin. Preface. Part I. Money in All its

Forms. Chapter

. Good Money Is Stable Money: A Barter Economy vs. a Money Economy.

Chapter

. Hard Money and Soft Money: Currency around the World--from

the

th Century BC to the

1st Century AD. Chapter

. Supply, Demand, and the Value of Currency: How the Circulation of

Money Is Regulated by Central Banks. Chapter

. Inflation, Deflation, and Floating Currencies: And Their Effect

on Prices, Wages, Taxes, and Debt. Chapter

. The Gold Standard: A Benchmark of the Value of Money that Creates

a Free Market. Chapter

. Taxes: How They Diminish Productivity, Trade, the Stability of

Money, and Overall Economic Health. Part II. A History of US Money.

Chapter

. Money in America: From Colonial Silver and Paper to the Turmoil

of

929. Chapter

. A History of Central Banking: From Ancient Egypt and Rome to the

Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve. Chapter

. The

930s: Bad Capitalism and a Failure of Monetary and Fiscal Policy.

Chapter

0. The Bretton Woods Gold Standard:

0 Years of Hard Currency Destroyed by Taxes in the

970s. Chapter

1. Volcker and Reagan: Monetarism Fails, But the Tax Cuts Succeed:

And the

980s Boom. Chapter

2. The Greenspan Years: The

987 Stock Market Crash, a Recession, Deflation, and a Slow Economic

Recovery. Part III. Currency Crises Around the World. Chapter

3. Japan's Two Great Periods of Economic Success: Based on a Gold

Standard/Hard Currency and Low Taxes. Chapter

4. The Asia Crisis of the Late

990s: Worldwide Currency Turmoil and Economic Disaster Caused by a

Mismanaged US Dollar. Chapter

5. Devastating Currency Devaluations in Russian, China, Mexico, and

Yugoslavia. Chapter

6. A Return to Hard Currencies: Good Government Leads to Good

Money. Notes.

　　Nathan Lewis was formerly the chief international economist of

a leading economic forecasting firm. He now works for an asset

management company based in New York. Lewis has written for the

Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal Asia, the Japan Times,

Pravda, and other publications. He has appeared on financial

television in the United States, Japan, and the Middle East.

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For 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 in the next four centuries. In Gold, he makes a forceful, well-documented case for a worldwide return to the gold standard.

Governments and central bankers around the world today unanimously agree on the desirability of stable money, ever more so after some monetary disaster has reduced yet another economy to smoking ruins. Lewis shows how gold provides the stability needed to foster greater prosperity and productivity throughout the world. He offers an insightful look at money in all its forms, from the seventh century B.C. to the present day, explaining in straightforward layman’s terms the effects of inflation, deflation, and floating currencies along with their effect on prices, wages, taxes, and debt. He explains how the circulation of money is regulated by central banks and, in the process, demystifies the concepts of supply, demand, and the value of currency. And he illustrates how higher taxes diminish productivity, trade, and the stability of money. Lewis also provides an entertaining history of U.S. money and offers a sobering look at recent currency crises around the world, including the Asian monetary crisis of the late 1990s and the devastating currency devaluations in Russia, China, Mexico, and Yugoslavia.

Lewis’s ultimate conclusion is simple but powerful: gold has been adopted as money because it works. The gold standard produced decades and even centuries of stable money and economic abundance. If history is a guide, it will be done again.

Nathan Lewis was formerly the chief international economist of a firm that provided investment research for institutions. He now works for an asset management company based in New York. Lewis has written for the Financial Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, Japan Times, Pravda, and other publications. He has appeared on financial television in the United States, Japan, and the Middle East.