Charles P. Kindleberger has written many influential books in economics over the past 60 years, the most recent of which are: Economic Laws and Economic History (1990), Historical Economics: Art of Science? (1990), and Mariners and Markets (1992).

• Introduction and Chronologies ; I: MONEY ; Evolution of Money in Western Europe ; Bank Money ; Bimettalism and the Emergence of the Gold Standard ; II: BANKING ; English and Scottish Banking ; French Banking ; German Banking ; Italian and Spanish Banking ; III: FINANCE ; Government Finance ; Private Finance, Individuals and Families ; Private Finance: The Corporation ; Foreign Investment: Dutch, British, French, and German Experience to 1914 ; Transfer Cases ; Foreign Lending: Political and Analytical Aspects ; Financial Crises ; IV: THE INTERWAR PERIOD ; War Finance, Reparations, War Debts ; German Postwar Inflation ; The Restoration of the Pound to the Par ; Stabilization of the Franc ; The 1929 Depression ; The 1930s ; V: AFTER WORLD WAR II ; German Finance in and after World War II ; Lend-Lease, the British Loan, the Marshall Plan ; European Financial Integration ; Europe in the World Financial System

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