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Preface; Contents; List of Further Illustrations; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; References; Chapter 2: On the Conventional Nature of Money; 2.1 Background; 2.2 The Essentially Conventional Nature of (the) Money (System); 2.2.1 Money as a Conventional Instrument Since Its Very Creation; 2.2.2 Origins of Coin-Based Monetary Systems; 2.2.3 Money Within Modern States; 2.3 Evolution of the Conventional Nature of the Monetary System in the Middle Ages; 2.3.1 The Early Medieval Banking System; 2.3.1.1 Predecessors of the Medieval Banking System
2.3.1.2 The Medieval Mechanism of Coin Deposits2.3.1.3 The Medieval Mechanism of Lending Coin Money; 2.3.2 The Medieval Evolution Towards Privately Issued Paper Money; 2.3.3 Medieval Private Paper Money Creation Based on Lending; 2.3.4 Synthesis: Status of the Monetary System at the End of the Middle Ages; 2.3.5 Evaluation of the (Late) Medieval Money Creation; 2.3.5.1 Advantages of the New Money Creation System; 2.3.5.2 Precarious Nature of the New Money Creation System; 2.3.5.3 (Preliminary) Ethical Perception of the New System of Money Creation
2.4 Genesis of the Central Banking System as a Reaction to Financial Crises2.4.1 Banking Crises as Triggers for Government Intervention; 2.4.2 Genesis of (an Early) Central Banking System; 2.4.3 Genesis of a Central Bank Policy; 2.4.4 Impact of the Aforementioned Evolutions on the Monetary System; 2.4.5 Further Crystallization of the Monetary System in the Nineteenth Century; 2.5 Scriptural Money as the New Privately Created Money; 2.5.1 Background; 2.5.2 Deposits and Money Substitution; 2.5.3 Creating New Scriptural Money Through Commercial Bank Lending
2.6 Further Aspects of the Modern Banking and Money System2.6.1 General Characteristics of the Modern Banking System; 2.6.2 The Continuous Conventional Nature of Modern Forms of Money; 2.6.3 Credit as Money; 2.6.4 Further Monetary Issues Within a Credit Economy; 2.7 The Monetary and Banking System in a Globalized Context; 2.7.1 Interplay Between International Trade and International Payment Transactions; 2.7.2 Legal Premises and Systems for Smooth International Payments; 2.7.3 Disruptions Occurring Within International Payment Transactions; 2.8 Preliminary Conclusion; References
Chapter 3: The Debate About the Ethics of Money Pursuit3.1 General Goal of This Chapter; 3.2 Functions of Money; 3.2.1 Classic Functions of Money in General; 3.2.2 Money as a System of Unlimited Wealth Accumulation and Its Interaction with Self-centered and Altruistic Thinking: A Gen...; 3.3 Historical Voices Against the Unlimited Accumulation of Wealth; 3.3.1 Scope; 3.3.2 The Fundamental Incompatibility of (Institutionalized) Saving and Credit with Certain Philosophical and Religious Doctri...; 3.3.2.1 Plato; 3.3.2.2 The Religious-Ethical Teachings of Jesus Christ
2.3.1.2 The Medieval Mechanism of Coin Deposits2.3.1.3 The Medieval Mechanism of Lending Coin Money; 2.3.2 The Medieval Evolution Towards Privately Issued Paper Money; 2.3.3 Medieval Private Paper Money Creation Based on Lending; 2.3.4 Synthesis: Status of the Monetary System at the End of the Middle Ages; 2.3.5 Evaluation of the (Late) Medieval Money Creation; 2.3.5.1 Advantages of the New Money Creation System; 2.3.5.2 Precarious Nature of the New Money Creation System; 2.3.5.3 (Preliminary) Ethical Perception of the New System of Money Creation
2.4 Genesis of the Central Banking System as a Reaction to Financial Crises2.4.1 Banking Crises as Triggers for Government Intervention; 2.4.2 Genesis of (an Early) Central Banking System; 2.4.3 Genesis of a Central Bank Policy; 2.4.4 Impact of the Aforementioned Evolutions on the Monetary System; 2.4.5 Further Crystallization of the Monetary System in the Nineteenth Century; 2.5 Scriptural Money as the New Privately Created Money; 2.5.1 Background; 2.5.2 Deposits and Money Substitution; 2.5.3 Creating New Scriptural Money Through Commercial Bank Lending
2.6 Further Aspects of the Modern Banking and Money System2.6.1 General Characteristics of the Modern Banking System; 2.6.2 The Continuous Conventional Nature of Modern Forms of Money; 2.6.3 Credit as Money; 2.6.4 Further Monetary Issues Within a Credit Economy; 2.7 The Monetary and Banking System in a Globalized Context; 2.7.1 Interplay Between International Trade and International Payment Transactions; 2.7.2 Legal Premises and Systems for Smooth International Payments; 2.7.3 Disruptions Occurring Within International Payment Transactions; 2.8 Preliminary Conclusion; References
Chapter 3: The Debate About the Ethics of Money Pursuit3.1 General Goal of This Chapter; 3.2 Functions of Money; 3.2.1 Classic Functions of Money in General; 3.2.2 Money as a System of Unlimited Wealth Accumulation and Its Interaction with Self-centered and Altruistic Thinking: A Gen...; 3.3 Historical Voices Against the Unlimited Accumulation of Wealth; 3.3.1 Scope; 3.3.2 The Fundamental Incompatibility of (Institutionalized) Saving and Credit with Certain Philosophical and Religious Doctri...; 3.3.2.1 Plato; 3.3.2.2 The Religious-Ethical Teachings of Jesus Christ