'This profound yet entertaining book deserves a wide audience … It should also be required reading for specialist monetary economists.' Philip Turner, Central Banking
1. Of gold and paper money; 2. The great depression and its legacy; 3. Fine tuning out of control; 4. A science of monetary policy; 5. Where the great experiment went wrong; 6. A new art of central banking; Epilogue 1. Why forecast?; Epilogue 2. Monetary policy in troubled times; A final word; Index.