Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Sources -- Introduction The failure of money -- John Ruskin - Unto This Last (1860) -- John Maynard Keynes - National Self-sufficiency (1933) -- Part I The trouble with money: there isn't enough of it -- Benjamin Franklin - The benefits of printing paper money (1729) -- Robert Owen - Labour as a standard of value (1820) -- Ignatius Donnelly - The Populists (1892) -- William Jennings Bryan - Crucifying mankind (1896) -- L Frank Baum - The Wizard of Oz (1900) -- Silvio Gesell - Why money has to rust (1913) -- C H Douglas - Purchasing power (1931) -- William Krehm - Bulgarian tenors and central bankers (1989) -- James Robertson - Chickenfood and horsefood (1992) -- Part II The trouble with money: there's too much of it -- Daniel Defoe - The villainy of stock-jobbers (1701) -- Thomas Jefferson - Should we have banks? (1813) -- Charles MacKay - Tulipmania (1841) -- Washington Irving - A time of unexampled prosperity (1855) -- John Kenneth Galbraith - The great crash (1954) -- Ralph Borsodi - The trouble with Keynesianism (1974) -- Paul Glover - Hometown money (1992) -- The Earl of Caithness - Debt-based money supply (1997) -- George Soros - The looming crisis (1995) -- Part III The trouble with money: it's corrupt -- Aristotle - Unnatural wealth (350 BC) -- Francis Bacon - Of usury (1601) -- Jonathan Swift - Debasing the coinage (1724) -- Abraham Lincoln - Monetary policy (1865) -- Frederick Soddy - Arch-enemy of economic freedom (1943) -- Jane Jacobs - Cities and the wealth of nations (1984) -- Margrit Kennedy - The dangers of interest (1988) -- Joel Kurtzman - The death of money (1993) -- Michael Rowbotham - The grip of death (1998) -- Part IV Democratic money -- Andrew Jackson - The bank veto (1832).