Guide to Good Money

Brendan Brown is a Senior Research Fellow of the Hudson Institute, Washington, DC, and of the Mises Institute (USA). He is a founding partner of Macro Hedge Advisors LLP. Formerly Brendan was Head of Economic Research at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (Europe). His areas of expertise include monetarism in theory and practice, Austrian School monetary economics, European monetary integration, Japanese monetary issues, the global flow of capital, and international financial history. Brendan has published many books on contemporary finance and financial history. He received a PhD from the University of London, a MBA from the University of Chicago, a MSc from the London School of Economics, and an undergraduate degree from Cambridge University.Robert Pringle is an author, editor, commentator and entrepreneur specializing in money, banking and capital markets. A former Editor of The Banker, London, he was the first director of the Group of 30 institute on monetary affairs now based in Washington, DC. In 1990 he founded Central Banking Publications, a financial publisher specialising in public policy and financial markets and remains chairman. Robert has monitored and commented on changes in financial markets and the monetary policies of central banks around the world for more than 40 years. He has published several books and edited more than 50 volumes of collected papers, surveys and training manuals for policy makers and market regulators. He holds an MA in economics from King’s College, Cambridge University, UK.

• Introduction.- PART 1: THE PRESENT SCENE.- 1   Modern money - a matter of trust.- 2   Globalization without global money.- 3. The global menace of US monetary policies.- PART TWO: THE ESSENCE OF GOOD MONEY.- 4. What we mean by “good money”.- 5. Why good money has a solid anchor.- PART THREE: THE GRIP OF BAD MONEY.- 6. Asset inflation and the illusions of prosperity.- 7: Exposing the state concept of money.- 8. A short history of modern money.- 9. Symptoms and consequences of bad money.- PART FOUR:  VESTED INTERESTS, POLITICS AND THE PANDEMIC.- 10: What keeps a bad system in power?.- 11. Bad money’s  pyrrhic victory over the pandemic.- PART FIVE: REFORM, IDEALISM AND PROSPERITY.- 12. Two real anchors.- 13. We reply to potential questions and criticisms.- 14. Pathways to good money.- 15. Criticism, realism, idealism and reform.