The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World 1700-2000

Part 1 Spending and taxing: the rise and fall of the warfare state hateful taxes the Commons and the castle -representation and administration. Part 2 Promises to pay: mountains of the moon - public debts the money printers - default and debasement of interest. Part 3 Economic politics: dead weights and tax-eaters - the social history of finance the myth of the feelgood factor the Silverbridge syndrome - electoral economics. Part 4 Global power: masters and plankton - financial globalization golden fetters, paper chains - international monetary regimes the American wave - democracy's flow and ebb fractured unities understretch - the limits of economic power conclusion.