Table of Contents

1: David Fox, François R. Velde, and Wolfgang Ernst: Introduction
2: Christine Desan: Money as a Legal Institution
Part I. The Late Middle Ages: Coins and the Law
Martin Allen: Currency Depreciation and Debasement in Medieval Europe
Fabian Wittreck: Money in Medieval Philosophy
Part II. Civil Law
Thomas Rüfner: Money in the Roman Law Texts
Wolfgang Ernst: The Legists' Doctrines on Money and the Law from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries
Andreas Thier: Money in Medieval Canon Law
Alain Wijffels: The 'Reduction' of Money in the Low Countries c. 1489-1515.
Part III. Money in the Early Modern Period: The Triumph of Nominalism
Michael North: Monetary Reforms in the Holy Roman Empire in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
David Fox: The Enforcement of Nominal Values to Money in the Medieval and Early Modern Common Law
David Fox: The Case of Mixt Monies (1604)
Wim Decock: Spanish Scholastics on Money and Credit
Clausdieter Schott: German Law Faculties and Benches of Jurymen (Schöffenstühle) on Loans and Inflation: Legal Doctrine and Seventeenth Century Legal Practice
Anja Amend-Traut: Monetary and Currency Problems in the Light of Early Modern Litigation
Part III. The Evolution of Cashless Payment: Bank Money
William Roberds and François Velde: Early Public Banks I: Ledger-Money Banks
Benjamin Geva: 'Bank Money': The Rise, Fall, and Metamorphosis of the 'Transferable Deposit'
James Steven Rogers: Early English Law of Checks
Benjamin Geva: The Order to Pay Money in Medieval Continental Europe
Stephan Meder: Giro Payments and the Beginning of the Modern Cashless Payment System
Part IV. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: The Emergence of Paper Money
William Roberds and François Velde: Early Public Banks II: Banks of Issue
Helmut Siekmann: Deposit Banking and the Use of Monetary Instruments
James Steven Rogers: Early English Law of Bank Notes
Kenneth G.C. Reid: Banknotes and their Vindication in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Rastko Vrbaski: Multiple Currency Clauses and Currency Reform: The Austrian Coupon Cases
Part V. The Twentieth Century: Fiat Money
Michael Bordo and Angela Redish: Putting the 'System' in the International Monetary System
Peter Kugler: The Bretton Woods System: Design and Operation
L. Randall Wray: From the State Theory of Money to Modern Money: An Alternative to Ecomomic Orthodoxy
François R. Velde: Hyperinflations of the Early Twentieth Century
Roy Kreitner: Responses to Crisis: Refiguring the Monetary and the Fiscal in the Great Depression
David Fox: Monetary Obligations and the Fragmentation of the Sterling Monetary Union
Jan Thiessen: The German Hyperinflation of the 1920s
Case Study: Swedish Government Bonds, their Gold Dollar Clause, and the 1933 Roosevelt Act - Georges Sauser-Halls Opinion on Loans issued by the Government of Sweden

About the Author

David Fox is a University Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Fellow of St John's College, University of Cambridge. He specializes in law of property, trusts, and the legal aspects of money, and his publications include Property Rights in Money (2008).

Wolfgang Ernst is Regius Professor of Civil Law in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of All Souls College.

Reviews

The text should be of value to academics and others with an interest in the theory of money, whether from a legal, economic or historical perspective. It may also provide inspiration to practitioners searching for novel solutions to legal dilemmas created by ever more complex developments in the international monetary system.
*Charles Proctor, Journal of World Investment and Trade*