A history of interest rates

Foreword by dr. Henry Kaufman
Preface to the fourth edition
Summary tables
Summary charts
Introduction

Part one: Ancient times

1. Prehistoric and primitive credit and interest
2. Mesopotamia: Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria
3. Greece
4. Rome
5. Summary and analysis of ancient interest rates

Part two: Medieval and renaissance Europe

6. Usury doctrines and their effect on European credit forms and interest
7. The dark ages
8. Late medieval times
9. The renaissance
10. A summary and analysis of medieval and renaissance interest rates in western Europe

Part three: Modern Europe and North America to 1900

11. England in the eighteenth century
12. Europe in the eighteenth century
13. England in the nineteenth century
14. France in the nineteenth century
15. Other European countries in the nineteenth century
16. The united states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Part four: Europe and North America since 1900

17. The united states in the twentieth century: 1900 - 1945
18. The united states in the twentieth century: 1946 - 1990
19. England in the twentieth century
20. Europe in the twentieth century: France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy
21. Europe in the twentieth century: Switzerland, Austria, Scandinavia, Ireland, Iberia, and Turkey
22. Canada in the twentieth century
23. Summary and analysis of interest rates in Europe and North America since 1700

Part five: Other countries and the 1990's

24. Japan
25. The old sterling area: Australia, New Zealand, south Africa, India, and Pakistan
26. Russia
27. China
28. Latin America
29. Turn of the millennium: 1990 - 2005

Notes
Index