The Evolution of Small Change: Beliefs, Experiments, and ...
The Evolution of Small Change: Beliefs, Experiments, and ...
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Debasements <strong>and</strong> currency reforms . . . . . . . . . . . 63<br />
4. A Question from public law: setting seigniorage<br />
rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />
Sources <strong>of</strong> the Canonists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />
Debasements <strong>and</strong> seigniorage rates . . . . . . . . . . . 66<br />
5. Qualifications, Exceptions <strong>and</strong> Discoveries . . . . . . . .<br />
Early statement <strong>of</strong> ‘double coincidence’, a<br />
threat to the commodity-based view <strong>of</strong><br />
67<br />
money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68<br />
Romanists repair the breach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69<br />
Canonists versus Romanists on seigniorage . . . . . . . 70<br />
Another breach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71<br />
Philosophers help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72<br />
<strong>The</strong> cracks widen: debasements <strong>and</strong> deficit<br />
financing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72<br />
Monetary <strong>The</strong>ory in the Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />
Precursors <strong>of</strong> Adam Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />
Debt Repayment, Legal Tender <strong>and</strong> Nominalism<br />
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75<br />
Fiat Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77<br />
Quantity <strong>The</strong>ory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
Lessons from the Castilian Experience: Fiat<br />
80<br />
Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82<br />
In Spain: Juan de Mariana (1609) . . . . . . . . . . 82<br />
Forecasting inflation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83<br />
In France: Henri Poullain (1612) . . . . . . . . . . 84<br />
Montanari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85<br />
Discovery <strong>of</strong> st<strong>and</strong>ard formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86<br />
5. Shortages <strong>and</strong> <strong>Experiments</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89<br />
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