How credit-money shapes the economy : the United States in a global system / Robert Guttmann.

Tables and Figures, xiii -- Preface, xvii -- Acknowledgments, xxiii -- Part I. The theory of money, 3 -- Chapter 1. The Economy in Transition, 3 -- Chapter 2. Economic Activities as Monetary Circuits, 19 -- Chapter 3. The Cyclical Growth Pattern of Capital Accumulation, 44 -- Part II. The Historic Evolution of Money Management, 63 -- Chapter 4. The Transition from Commodity-Money to Credit-Money, 63 -- Chapter 5. The Postwar Monetary Regime and Its Inflationary Bias, 87 -- Part III. The End of the New Deal, 119 -- Chapter 6. Stagflation and Financial Instability, 119 -- Chapter 7. The Disintegration of the Postwar Monetary Regime, 137 -- Chapter 8. The Legacy of Reaganomics, 166 -- Part IV. The Monetary Regime in Transition, 197 -- Chapter 9. The Dilemmas of Monetary Policy, 197 -- Chapter 10. Financial Fragility and the Lender of Last Resort, 223 -- Chapter II. Regulatory Overhaul and the Restructuring of U.S. Banks, 258 -- Chapter 12. Deal Mania and Fictitious Capital, 293 -- Part V. The International Dimension of Money, 323 -- Chapter 13. The Challenges of Global Integration, 323 -- Chapter 14. The International Monetary System in Flux, 353 -- Chapter 15. Supranational Credit-Money, 385 -- Chapter 16. Toward a True Form of World Money, 427 -- Part VI. Restructuring the American Economy, 455 -- Chapter 17. The United States at the Crossroads, 455 -- Notes, 489 -- Acronyms and Abbreviations, 523 -- Bibliography, 527 -- Index, 541 -- About the Author, 563.