Table of contents : i. Money. ii. Of Coins and Treasure. iii. Banks. iv. *The* Bank. v. Of Paper. vi. An Instrument of Revolution. vii. The Money War. viii. The Great Compromise. ix. The Price. x. The Impeccable System. xi. The Fall. xii. The Ultimate Inflation. xiii. The Self-Inflicted Wounds. xiv. When the Money Stopped. xv. The Threat of the Impossible. xvi. The Coming of J. M. Keynes. xvii. War and the Next Lesson. xviii Good Years: The Preparation. xix. The New Economics at High Noon. xx. Where It Went. xxi. Afterword.