Money Doctors Around the Globe

Introduction: What's a Money Doctor?.- Money Doctors in the Medieval/Pre-Modern Period.- Is Oda Nobunaga the Final Champion of the Medieval Era or A Pioneer of the Early Modern Era?.-  A Money Doctor in the 16th Century Japan.- Johan Palmstrüch, A Copper Money Doctor: Stockholm Banco and the Emergence of Banknotes in 17th Century Sweden.- Fiat Copper Money and Trust: Monetary Campaign of Alexei Mikhailovich (1654-1663).- Money Doctors in Modern Nation-Building.- The H.C. Carey School of U.S. Currency Doctors: A "Subtle Principle" and its Progeny.- Money Doctors who Established Japan's Modern Monetary and Financial Systems.- Zhang Jia'ao's Bank Management in the Beijing Government Era: Central Bank Independence Reconsidered from Chinese Historical Perspective.- No More Papers. We Need Sound Institutions! Monetary Debates in Colombia before the Central Bank.- The Making of Latin-American Neo-Metalista Monetary Policy in the Twenties: The Case of the Andean Countries Visited By E.W. Kemmerer.- The Money Doctor Raimundo Fernández Villaverde and the Classical Gold Standard in Spain.- Money Doctoring Italy in the Interwar Years. The Rationale for Central Banking and its Outcomes.- Money Doctors in Crises.- The Diagnoses, Right and Wrong, of O.M.W. Sprague, one of America's Premier Money Doctors during the Great Depression.- The Doctor is a Quack: The Delahaye Brothers, or How Fringe Politicians Framed the 1930s Financial Crisis Narrative in the French Senate.- Sir Alfred Charles Davidson and the Australian Exchange Crisis Of 1929-31.- Parallel Depreciating Money: Mr Unterguggenberger's Prescription to the Economic Ills of the Great Depression.- A Money Doctor Ignored? Edwin Kemmerer´S Second Mission to Colombia, 1930.- Robert Triffin's Latin American Missions for the Federal Reserve System in the 1940s.- Edward A. Tennenbaum and the Creation of the Deutsche Mark: who's the Money Doctor?.- Rueff Vs De Lattre: A French Money Doctors' Duel for Influence Over

Andrés Álvarez is an associate professor in the Economics Department at Universidad de Los Andes, in Bogota. He has made contributions to the monetary and banking history of Colombia and to the study of economic thought. He is currently working on a project on the evolution of social mobility in Colombia in the long run and on the determinants of educational segregation in the country. Andrés is co-editor with Jimena Hurtado of a History of Colombian Economic Thought: The Economic Ideas that Built Modern Colombia, Routledge. He recently published with Camilo Gómez and Hernando Zuleta "Bequests, Imperfections in Factor Markets, and Long-Run Inequality: A Theoretical Assessment of Piketty" in the Journal of Income Distribution.

Vincent Bignon is a senior research advisor and the counselor of the communication director of Bank of France after having been the advisor of the chief economist. He is also an associate professor at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics in the University of Aix-Marseille and a research fellow of the Center for European Policy Research. His published research deals with the theory and history of money and the factors of economic development of Europe. He is the author of The Other Way: A Narrative History of Banque de France, with Marc Flandreau, published in Sveriges Riksbank and the History of Central Banking by Rodney Edvinson, Tor Jacobson, Daniel and Waldenstrom at Cambridge University Press, or Big Push or Big Grab? Railways, Government Activism and Export Growth in Latin America, 1865-1913, with Rui Esteves et Alfonso Herranz-Loncán, published by The Economic History Review in 2015, of Bagehot for Beginners: The Making of Lending of Last Resort Operations in the Mid-19th Century, with Marc Flandreau and Stefano Ugolini, published by The Economic History Review in May 2012, of Illiquid Collateral and Bank Lending during the European Sovereign Debt Crisis, with Jean Barthélemy  and