Money, credit and inflation

Still the reference on how a panic should be met.

The contemporary economist's study; still the technical reference on the hyperinflation.

The founding work of monetary history; the Depression chapter changed policy.

Six centuries of banking, coinage and crises across the continent.

The scholarly case that the gold standard transmitted the Depression.

Monetary episodes as short essays; the accessible way into Friedman.

Short history of the international monetary system; the standard survey.

Edited collection of the core academic papers.

The institutional history from the inside of the minutes.

Chernow on the man who built American public credit and its bank

The dollar's reserve status and what would end it.

The long history of state borrowing and when it is sustainable.

The revisionist case that the inflation had real benefits before it broke.

How expectations and fiscal credibility ended the inflation almost overnight.

The scholarly standard; corrects Fergusson on who gained and who lost.

Comparative study of hyperinflations and the fiscal conditions behind them.

Niall Ferguson's history of financial innovation — from Medici banking to mortgage-backed securities. Adds a dimension the other books underweight: capital markets, insurance, and credit are not peripheral to economic development but central to it. Readable but should be checked against critics of Ferguson's selective history.

How the single currency was negotiated, by a reporter who watched it.

Keynes, White and the design of the postwar currency order.

Why some countries have banking crises and others do not; politics, not luck.

Philip II's serial defaults, and why bankers kept lending anyway.

Finance as a technology, from Mesopotamia forward.

The hard-money case for bitcoin; the most cited book inside the community.

Argues ageing turns from disinflationary to inflationary; the key macro claim.

The long-run purchasing-power series that grounds gold inflation-hedge claims.

The Austrian counter-history of American banking; polemical but factual.

How Hong Kong's banks and bank crises shaped the miracle economy.

The 1965-1982 US inflation and the Volcker disinflation.

Working FX strategist on what actually moves the dollar.

Popular account of competitive devaluation as policy.

Modern retelling with more on the stabilisation and the Rentenmark.

First-hand accounts of trading, saving and pricing through the collapse; the modern companion to Fergusson.

The Bank of England from 1694, by its best narrative historian.

Insider account of the Fed from Burns through the QE era.

Subtitled A Modern Ever-Normal Granary; commodity-reserve currency plan.

Four thousand years of rates; the reference work.

The canonical narrative account of the 1923 inflation and what it did to savers and creditors.

The Volcker Fed from the inside; still the fullest political account.

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Eight centuries of price revolutions and what ended each one.

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Hard-money argument for a return to a gold link.

The long anthropological view of debt forgiveness and its politics.

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Open Library lists the short title "Changing World Order".

Quantitative easing told through Thomas Hoenig's dissents.

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How the Federal Reserve was argued into existence, 1907-1913.