The essentials of money and banking / Leonardo Auernheimer y Robert B. Ekelund.

Chapter 1. Introduction: The essentials of money and banking, 1 -- Part I. Money: Its role and function in the economic system, 15 -- Chapter 2. A general characterization of money, 17 -- Chapter 3. The demand for money, 38 -- Part II. Monetary theory: A modern approach to income, employment, and inflation, 59 -- Chapter 4. Basic monetary propositions: classical, Keynesian, and Monetarist, 61 -- Chapter 5. The modern analysis of expenditures, income, and prices: (I) expenditures, 72 -- Chapter 6. The modern analysis of expenditures, income, and prices: (II) the supply side, 104 -- Chapter 7. Monetary expansion and inflation: The long run, 126 -- Chapter 8. Monetary expansion in the short run: Inflation Unemployment, and interest rates, 145 -- Part iii. Commercial and central banking: Theory and institutions, 185 -- Chapter 9. Commercial banks as creators of money, 187 -- Chapter 10. The federal reserve and commercial banking systems: Structure and institutions, 209 -- Chapter 11. Instruments of monetary policy, 229 -- Part IV. Financial intermediaries and markets in the economic system, 271 -- Chapter 12. Financial intermediaries: commercial banks and other depository institutions, 273 -- Chapter 13. Financial markets: interest rates and economic Policy, 302 -- Part V. The application of theory and institutions: monetary policy, the international economy, and twentieth- century monetary policy, 327 -- Chapter 14. The role of monetary policy, 329 -- Chapter 15. The international scene: trade and finance, 369 -- Chapter 16. A brief monetary history of the United States, 1897-1960, 406 -- Index, 441.