The Money View Reading Group reads and discusses writings on money, banking, and finance. We are a self-directed group. Anyone interested in money and banking can read the readings, join us for discussions, or suggest future readings.

We meet for 90 minutes via Zoom on Tuesdays at 2 pm Eastern Time US (New York).

https://www.amazon.com/Between-Payments-Credit-Introduction-Economy-ebook/dp/B0FF3RR3T4/

From the description:

In unpacking credit relationships and payments over the past 1000 years in addition to how technological innovations are shifting the credit relationships/payments landscape – from barter, commodity money, single layered to dual-layered financial money systems and from CBDC to stablecoins – this book systematically explores the various techniques that have been introduced in an attempt to improve the organisation, efficiency and stability of the IOU economy as a way to mitigate or prevent the universal challenge of the IOU economy from binding.

Pantelopolous says the “universal challenge” of an IOU economy is the scenario in which liquidity dries up.

During the off week, we discuss the 1977 John Hicks essay “Monetary Experience and the Theory of Money.”

From the essay:

It is less easy for us than it was in the days of Gold Standards, to think in terms of a world-wide monetary system; but some at least of the problems which concern us are world problems, so a closed-economy theory need not on that account be wholly out of date. Moderately, but continually, rising prices, with a high level of unemployment, were charac¬ teristic—on a world scale—of what has been called the Bretton Woods period, that lasted from some time in the 1950s to the dollar crisis of 1971; a much more rapid inflation of prices, with much worse employment, has been characteristic—again on a world scale—of what has happened since. Why did prices behave as they did during the Bretton Woods period? and why has there been the subsequent acceleration? Why have there been these changes in employment behaviour?

The essay appears in Hicks’s 1977 book, Economic Perspectives: Further Essays on Money and Growth.

Read it here: https://archive.org/details/economicperspect0000hick/page/n3/mode/2up

Buy it here: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/economic-perspectives-further-essays-on-money-and-growth-9780198284079

We discuss Chapters 1–5 of Pantelopoulos’s Between Payments and Credit.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Barter and Commodity Money
• 3. Non-deposit Banking
• 4. Financial Money
• 5. Financial Money with Central Bank Money

We discuss Chapters 6–10 of Pantelopoulos’s Between Payments and Credit.

• 6. Correspondent Banking: Part 1
• 7. Correspondent Banking: Part 2
• 8. The Central Bank as the LOLR
• 9. The International Monetary System: Part 1
• 10. The International Monetary System: Part 2

We discuss Chapters 11–13 of Pantelopoulos’s Between Payments and Credit.

• 11. Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)
• 12. The Crypto-Verse: Terminologies and Technologies
• 13. Unbacked Crypto-Assets and Stablecoins

• Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters by Leah Downey (2025)
• The History of Money: A Story of Humanity by David McWilliams (2025)
• After the Accord: A History of Federal Reserve Open Market Operations, the US Government Securities Market, and Treasury Debt Management from 1951 to 1979 by Kenneth D. Garbade (2021)
• How a Ledger Became a Central Bank: A Monetary History of the Bank of Amsterdam by Quinn and Roberds (2023)
• A Study of Money Flows in the United States by Morris Copeland (1952)
• A History of the Greenbacks by Wesley Clair Mitchell (1903)
• Calming the Storms: The Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises Since 1825 by Charles Read (2023)
• Benjamin Strong: Central Banker by Lester V. Chandler (1958)
• An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets by Donald MacKenzie (2007)
• Currency and Credit (4e) by Ralph Hawtrey (1950)
• The Golden Age of the Quantity Theory by David Laidler (1991)
• Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance by Greta Krippner (2011)
• The Federal Reserve System by Paul Warburg (1930)
• Central Bank Capitalism: Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis by Joscha Wullweber (2024)
• Introduction to Central Banking by Ulrich Bindseil and Alessio Fota (2021)
• The Chairman: John J. McCloy & The Making of the American Establishment by Kai Bird (1992)
• Manias, Panics, and Crashes (8e) by Robert McCauley (2023)
• The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People by Martijn Konings (2025)

• Minsky by Daniel H. Neilson (2019)
  2021-03-24 — Discussion Session 1
  2021-03-31 — Discussion Session 2
  2021-04-07 — Discussion with Daniel Neilson
• The Art of Central Banking (Chapter IV) by Ralph Hawtrey (1933)
  2021-04-21 — Discussion Session 1
  2021-05-05 — Discussion Session 2
  2021-05-26 — Discussion with David Glasner
• Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism by Christine Desan (2014)
  2021-06-02 — Discussion Session 1
  2021-06-16 — Discussion Session 2
  2021-06-30 — Discussion Session 3
  2021-07-14 — Discussion with Christine Desan
• Money in a Theory of Finance by John G. Gurley, Edward S. Shaw (1960)
  2021-07-21 — Discussion Session 1
  2021-08-04 — Discussion Session 2
  2021-08-18 — Discussion Session 3
• The World in Depression, 1929-1939 by Charles P. Kindleberger (1973)
  2021-09-01 — Discussion Session 1
  2021-09-15 — Discussion Session 2
  2021-09-29 — Discussion Session 3
• The Rise of Carry by Jamie Lee et al (2019)
  2021-10-13 — Discussion Session 1
  2021-10-27 — Discussion Session 2
• The Money Interest and the Public Interest by Perry Mehrling (1998)
  2021-11-10 — Discussion Session 1 | Allyn Young
  2021-11-24 — Discussion Session 2 | Alvin Hanson
  2021-12-08 — Discussion Session 3 | Edward Shaw
• Controlling Credit by Eric Monnet (2018)
  2022-01-05 — Discussion Session 1
  2022-01-19 — Discussion Session 2
• The Menace of Fiscal QE by George Selgin (2020)
  2022-02-02 — Discussion Session
• The New Lombard Street by Perry Mehrling (2011)
  2022-02-23 — Discussion Session 1
  2022-03-09 — Discussion Session 2
  2022-03-23 — Discussion Session 3
• Fighting Financial Crises: Learning from the Past by Gary Gorton, Ellis Tallman (2021)
  2022-04-20 — Discussion Session 1
  2022-05-11 — Discussion Session 2
• Money and empire: The international gold standard, 1890-1914 by Marcello De Cecco (1974)
  2022-05-25 — Discussion Session 1
  2022-06-15 — Discussion Session 2
• Central Bank Cooperation 1924-31 by Stephen Clarke (1967)
  2022-06-22 — Discussion Session 1
  2022-07-06 — Discussion Session 2
• The Money Problem: Rethinking Financial Regulation by Morgan Ricks (2016)
  2022-07-27 — Discussion Session 1
  2022-08-10 — Discussion Session 2
  2022-08-17 — Discussion with Morgan Ricks
• The Evolution of Central Banking: Theory and History by Stefano Ugolini (2017)
  2022-08-24 — Discussion Session 1
  2022-09-07 — Discussion Session 2
  2022-09-21 — Discussion Session 3
  2022-10-05 — Discussion with Stefano Ugolini
• A Financial History of Western Europe by Charles P. Kindleberger (1984, 1993)
  2022-10-19 — Discussion Session 1 | Part 1: Money
  2022-11-02 — Discussion Session 2 | Part 2: Banking
  2022-11-16 — Discussion Session 3 | Part 3: Finance
  2023-01-11 — Discussion Session 4 | Part 4: The Interwar Period
  2023-01-18 — Discussion Session 5 | Part 5: After World War II
• Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System by Perry Mehrling (2022)
  2022-11-30 — Discussion Session 1 | Part 1: Intellectual Formation, 1910–1948
  2022-12-14 — Discussion Session 2 | Part 2: International Economist, 1948–1976
  2022-12-21 — Discussion Session 3 | Part 3: Historical Economist, 1976–2003
  2022-12-21 — Discussion #1 with Perry Mehrling
  2023-01-04 — Discussion #2 with Perry Mehrling
• Bonds without Borders: A History of the Eurobond Market by Chris O’Malley (2015)
  2023-02-15 — Discussion Session 1
  2023-03-01 — Discussion Session 2
• Monetary Policy Operations and the Financial System by Ulrich Bindseil (2014)
  2023-03-15 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1-8)
  2023-03-29 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 9-12)
  2023-04-12 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 13-18)
• Capital Wars: The Rise of Global Liquidity by Michael J. Howell (2020)
  2023-04-26 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1-7)
  2023-05-10 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 8-14)
• A Market Theory of Money by John Hicks (1989)
  2023-05-24 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1-7)
  2023-06-07 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 8-15)
• The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes by Stefan Eich (2022)
  2023-06-28 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1 & 2)
  2023-07-19 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 3 & 4)
  2023-08-02 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 5 & 6)
  2023-08-14 — Discussion with Stefan Eich
• Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance by Perry Mehrling (2005)
  2023-08-22 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–5)
  2023-09-05 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 6–8)
  2023-09-19 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 9–11)
  2023-09-26 — Discussion with Perry Mehrling
• The Evolution of Central Banks by Charles Goodhart (1988)
  2023-10-03 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–6)
  2023-10-17 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 7–8, Appendix)
• The Repo Market: Shorts, Shortages, and Squeezes by Scott Skyrm (2023)
  2023-11-07 — Discussion Session 1 (pages 1–92)
  2023-11-21 — Discussion Session 2 (pages 93–186)
  2023-12-05 — Discussion Session 3 (pages 187–310) Part 1 — Part 2
  2023-12-12 — Discussion with Scott Skyrm From 39:20
• The Volatility Machine: Emerging Economies and the Threat of Financial Collapse by Michael Pettis (2001)
  2023-12-19 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–5)
  2024-01-02 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 6–10)
  2024-01-09 — Discussion with Michael Pettis
• International Capital Movements by Charles P. Kindleberger (1987)
  2024-01-16 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1 & 2)
  2024-01-30 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 3 & 4)
• A Political Theory of Money by Anush Kapadia (2024)
  2024-02-20 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–4)
  2024-03-05 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 5–7)
  2024-03-19 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 8–12)
  2024-03-26 — Discussion with Anush Kapadia
• The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism by Leon Wansleben (2023)
  2024-04-02 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–3)
  2024-04-23 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 4–6)
  2024-05-07 — Discussion with Leon Wansleben
• The Money Illusion: Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy by Scott Sumner (2021)
  2024-05-14 — Discussion Session 1 (Parts 1 & 2)
  2024-05-28 — Discussion Session 2 (Parts 3 & 4)
  2024-06-18 — Discussion Session 3 (Parts 5 & 6)
  2024-06-25 — Discussion with Scott Sumner
• Private Money and Public Currencies: The Sixteenth Century Challenge: The Sixteenth Century Challenge by Boyer-Xambeu, Deleplace, and Gillard (1994)
  2024-07-02 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–3)
  2024-07-16 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 4 & 5)
  2024-07-30 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 6, 7 & Conclusion)
• The Arena of International Finance by Charles A. Coombs (1976)
  2024-08-13 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1ー6)
  2024-08-27 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 7–12)
• The Bill on London: or The Finance of Trade by Bills of Exchange by Gillett Brothers (1952/1976)
  2024-09-17 — Discussion Session
• Birth of a Market: The U.S. Treasury Securities Market from the Great War to the Great Depression by Kenneth D. Garbade (2012)
  2024-10-01 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–10)
  2024-10-15 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 11–15)
  2024-10-29 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 16–24)
• A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021 by Alan S. Blinder (2022)
  2024-11-12 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–7)
  2024-11-26 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 8–13)
  2024-12-10 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 14–19)
• Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform by Yakov Feygin (2024)
  2025-01-07 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–3)
  2025-01-21 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 4–6)
  2025-02-04 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 7 & Afterword)
• A Crash Course on Crises: Macroeconomic Concepts for Run-Ups, Collapses, and Recoveries by Markus K. Brunnermeier and Ricardo Reis (2023)
  2025-02-25 — Discussion Session 1 (Parts 1 and 2)
  2025-03-11 — Discussion Session 2 (Parts 3 and 4)
• The Empire of Value: A New Foundation for Economics by Andre Orlean (2014)
  2025-03-25 — Discussion Session 1 (Introduction and Part 1) Part 1 — Part 2
  2025-04-08 — Discussion Session 2 (Parts 2 and 3)
  2025-04-22 — Discussion Session 3 (Part 4 and Conclusion)
• The Wheels of Commerce by Fernand Braudel (1979/1982)
  2025-05-06 — Discussion Session 1 (Chapter 1)
  2025-05-13 — Discussion Session 2 (Chapter 2)
  2025-05-20 — Discussion Session 3 (Chapter 3)
  2025-05-27 — Discussion Session 4 (Chapter 4)
  2025-06-03 — Discussion Session 5 (Chapter 5)
• Beyond Banks: Technology, Regulation, and the Future of Money by Dan Awrey (2024)
  2025-06-17 — Discussion Session 1 (Intro & Ch 1–3)
  2025-07-01 — Discussion Session 5 (Ch 4–7 & Conclusion)
  2025-07-08 — Discussion with Dan Awrey
• Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance by Kenneth Rogoff (2025)
  2025-08-19— Discussion Session 1 (Parts 1-3)
  2025-08-26 — Discussion Session 2 (Parts 4-6)
• Central Banking Before 1800: A Rehabilitation by Ulrich Bindseil (2019)
  2025-09-01 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1&2)
  2025-09-15 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 3–5)
  2025-09-29 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 6&7)
  2025-10-13 — Discussion with Ulrich Bindseil
• The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times by Giovanni Arrighi (2010)
  2025-10-20 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1&2)
  2025-11-03 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 3)
  2025-11-10 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 4)
• Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit by Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen Haber (2014)
  2025-11-17 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–5)
  2025-12-01 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 6-9)
  2025-12-15 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 10–15)
  2026-01-05 — Discussion with Charles Calomiris
• Treatise on Money by Joseph Schumpeter (1970/2014)
  2026-01-12 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–3)
  2026-01-27 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 4–7)
  2026-02-10 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 8–10)
  2026-02-24 — Discussion Session 4 (Ch 11–12)