Table of Contents
1. Introduction, David Fox
2. Money as a Legal Institution, Christine Desan
Part I. Coins and the Law
Currency Depreciation and Debasement in Medieval Europe, Martin Allen
Money in Medieval Philosophy, Fabian Wittreck
Money in the Roman Law Texts, Thomas Rufner
The Legists' Doctrines on Money and the Law, Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries, Wolfgang Ernst
Money in Medieval Canon Law, Andreas Thier
The Spanish Scholastics on Money and Credit, Wim Decock
Gabriel Biel's Monetary Theory, Stefan Kotz
The 'Reduction' of Money in the Low Countries, c. 1489-1515, Alain Wijffels
Part II. Money in the Early Modern Period: Inventing Nominalism
Monetary Reforms in the Holy Roman Empire, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, Michael North
The Enforcement of Nominal Values of Money in Medieval and Early Modern Common Law, David Fox
The Case of Mixt Monies (1604), David Fox
The Effects of Debasements on Debts in Early Modern Jurisprudence, Harry Dondorp
German Law Faculties and Benches of Jurymen (Schoffenstuhle) on Loans and Inflation: Legal Doctrine and Seventeenth Century Legal Practice, Clausdieter Schott
Early Modern Monetary Policy in the Light of Contemporary Adjudication, Anja Amend-Traut
Part III. The Emergence of Cashless Payment: Bank Money
Early Public Banks I: Ledger Money Banks, William Roberds and Francois Velde
The Order to Pay Money in Medieval Continental Europe, Benjamin Geva
Early English Law of Checks, James Steven Rogers
'Bank Money': The Rise, Fall, and Metamorphosis of the 'Transferable Deposit in Common Law, Benjamin Geva
Giro Payments and the Beginning of the Modern Cashless Payment System, Stephan Meder
Part IV. The Emergence of Paper Money
Early Public Banks II: Banks of Issue, William Roberds and Francois Velde
Deposit Banking and the Use of Monetary Instruments, Helmut Siekmann
Early English Law of Bank Notes, James Steven Rogers
Bank Notes and their Vindication in Eighteenth Century Scotland, Kenneth G.C. Reid
Multiple Currency Clauses and Currency Reform: The Austrian Coupon Cases, Rastko Vrbaski
Part V. Fiat Money
Putting the 'System' in the International Monetary System, Michael Bordo and Angela Redish
The Bretton Woods System: Design and Operation, Peter Kugler
Hyper-Inflations in the Early Twentieth Century, Francois Velde
From the State Theory of Money to Modern Monetary Theory, L. Randall Wray
Responses to Crisis: Re-configuring the Monetary and the Fiscal in the Great Depression, Roy Kreitner
Monetary Obligations and the Fragmentation of the Sterling Monetary Union, David Fox
The German Hyper-Inflation of the 1920s, Jan Thiessen
Case Study: Swedish Government Bonds, their Gold Dollar Clause and the 1933 Roosevelt Act