Jürg Niehans, professor of political economy at The Johns Hopkins Universit from 1966 to 1977, currently is professor of economics at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His works have appeared in many distinguished European and American journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journals of Money, Credit, and Banking, the Journals of International Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy. The Theory of Money is Niehan's fourth book.

A comprehensive and elegant elaboration of the neoclassical tradition in monetary theory, snythesizing and extending Niehans's earlier work in this field. Journal of Economic Literature

• PrefaceChapter 1. The Neoclassical TraditionChapter 2. Money Stocks and Commodity FlowsChapter 3. Money and Bonds with Given WealthChapter 4. money, Other Assets, and Commodity FlowsChapter 5. General Equilibrium of a Monetory Economy, Inflation, and the optimal Return of MoneyChapter 6. Barter and monetary ExchangeChapter 7. Money as a Medium of AccountChapter 8. Commodity MoneyChapter 9. The Supply of Bank MoneyChapter 10. Monetary MacrostaticsChapter 11. Monetary MacrodynamicsChapter 12. The Art of Central BankingBibliographyIndex

Jürg Niehans, professor of political economy at The Johns Hopkins Universit from 1966 to 1977, currently is professor of economics at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His works have appeared in many distinguished European and American journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journals of Money, Credit, and Banking, the Journals of International Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy. The Theory of Money is Niehan's fourth book.

A comprehensive and elegant elaboration of the neoclassical tradition in monetary theory, snythesizing and extending Niehans's earlier work in this field. Journal of Economic Literature

• PrefaceChapter 1. The Neoclassical TraditionChapter 2. Money Stocks and Commodity FlowsChapter 3. Money and Bonds with Given WealthChapter 4. money, Other Assets, and Commodity FlowsChapter 5. General Equilibrium of a Monetory Economy, Inflation, and the optimal Return of MoneyChapter 6. Barter and monetary ExchangeChapter 7. Money as a Medium of AccountChapter 8. Commodity MoneyChapter 9. The Supply of Bank MoneyChapter 10. Monetary MacrostaticsChapter 11. Monetary MacrodynamicsChapter 12. The Art of Central BankingBibliographyIndex

Jürg Niehans, professor of political economy at The Johns Hopkins Universit from 1966 to 1977, currently is professor of economics at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His works have appeared in many distinguished European and American journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journals of Money, Credit, and Banking, the Journals of International Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy. The Theory of Money is Niehan's fourth book.

A comprehensive and elegant elaboration of the neoclassical tradition in monetary theory, snythesizing and extending Niehans's earlier work in this field. Journal of Economic Literature

• PrefaceChapter 1. The Neoclassical TraditionChapter 2. Money Stocks and Commodity FlowsChapter 3. Money and Bonds with Given WealthChapter 4. money, Other Assets, and Commodity FlowsChapter 5. General Equilibrium of a Monetory Economy, Inflation, and the optimal Return of MoneyChapter 6. Barter and monetary ExchangeChapter 7. Money as a Medium of AccountChapter 8. Commodity MoneyChapter 9. The Supply of Bank MoneyChapter 10. Monetary MacrostaticsChapter 11. Monetary MacrodynamicsChapter 12. The Art of Central BankingBibliographyIndex