In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the publishing of the original edition, White, Vanberg, Köhler and their contributors (not always in agreement) call for reform of the monetary system and aim to reinvigorate the debate: should there be constitutional provisions empowering government or should there be provisions inhibiting government interference. Eleven essays are: the continuing search for a monetary constitution; still in search of a monetary constitution; the value of money as a constitutionalized parameter; the constitutionalization of money; monetary regimens, stability, politics, and inflation in history; index futures targeting and monetary disequilibrium; recent issues concerning monetary policy reform; monetary reform in a world of central banks; free banking in history and theory; contemporary private monetary systems; central banks. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) Read Less