...Exploring the subsequent crisis of Japanese liberalism, this chapter relates how the Minseitū cabinet led by Hamaguchi Osachi succeeded in returning Japan to the global monetary standard in January 1930. With this monetary reopening to the West, Japan's domestic crisis became a microcosm...

... of interconnected webs of paper money and paper credit. Bank of England Bank of Ireland coin shortages Hutchinson Francis mint charges monetary standards monetary system United Kingdom silver coin bullion exports Cantillon Richard East India Company English coins gold gold coin gold standard Jews...

... to articulate their preferences for one monetary standard over another by joining this discourse to the language and imagery of the Bible. The Book of Amos facilitates such grafting by taking as one of its principal subjects the standards of money and measure and the collusion of the powerful that leads...

...With the Bank Holiday of March 1933, the bank panics ceased. As banks accumulated excess reserves, they no longer had to borrow from the discount window. With the resulting end of the free-reserves operating procedures, Federal Reserve control over interest rates ended. The monetary standard...

...This concluding chapter reviews how Locke's attempt to establish a stable and trustworthy monetary standard was nothing short of a fiasco. When the secretary of the Treasury proposed to stabilize the currency by lowering its silver content coins, Locke rejected the idea. He argued instead...

... illustrated the need for domestic policy to break out of the rigid imperatives of an international monetary standard. Instead of merely embracing the unilateral suspension of gold, Keynes sought to develop a new template for international coordination that would—unlike the gold standard—allow for substantial...

... group Hang Lung Bank Hong Kong Association of Banks HKAB lender of last resort Luce Richard Tan George Youde Edward Bank of England Goodhart Charles xiii–xv monetary standards silver standard exchange for CIs pegged rates summary of at end 1989 fixed exchange rates partial convertibility...

... power Edward IV King monetary standard changes in noble coin type silver coinage general coinage not specific coins foreign currency abrasion of coins crying up of currency size reduction of coins Europe shillings and groats nominal values of indebitatus assumpsit monetary nominalism coin...

...In the late nineteenth century, as much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard, China remained the most populous country still using silver. Yet China had no unified national currency; there was not one monetary standard but many. Silver coins circulated alongside chunks of silver...

... pardons for those women who had been capitally convicted. The outcome of the monetary revolution cemented more strongly than ever the belief that an unchanging monetary standard was essential to England’s prestige and honour. At the same time, it brought economic misery to the masses and further widened...