Constitutional Money

Richard H. Timberlake is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. His research specialties are monetary policy and the history of central banking. Dr Timberlake's most recent publications include Monetary Policy in the United States: An Institutional and Intellectual History and Money and the Nation State, with Kevin Dowd. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago.

'Richard H. Timberlake provides a tour de force on the history and unconstitutionality of the US government's meddling in the US monetary system. Constitutional Money is the definitive reference in its field, a true classic.' Kevin Dowd, University of Durham

• 1. The current state of monetary affairs in the United States; 2. Emergence of money in civilized societies; 3. Bimetallic monetary systems and appearance of a national bank; 4. McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819, and the Second Bank of the United States; 5. 'To coin money and regulate the value thereof'; 6. Craig v. Missouri, 1830; 7. Briscoe v. Bank of Kentucky, 1837; 8. Government issues of treasury notes and greenbacks; 9. Track of the legal tender bills through Congress, 1862–3; 10. Bronson v. Rodes, 1868; 11. Veazie Bank v. Fenno, 1869; 12. Hepburn v. Griswold, 1870: the legal tender issue; 13. Knox v. Lee and Parker v. Davis, 1871: reversal of Hepburn; 14. Monetary affairs in the United States, 1871–83; 15. Juilliard v. Greenman, 1884: the final legal tender decision; 16. Judicial commentaries on the legal tender cases: sovereignty; 17. Other commentaries on the legal tender cases; 18. The [Gold] Currency Act of 1900: monetary affairs in the United States before 1914; 19. The Federal Reserve System, 1914–29; 20. The great monetary contraction, 1929–33; 21. Gold! Where was it? What happened to it?; 22. The Gold Clause Cases, 1934–5; 23. Gold and money in the twentieth century; 24. A Constitutional monetary system.