Denis Fahey: Money Manipulation And Social Order

Rev. Denis Fahey: Money Manipulation And Social Order [First published in 1944]. 115 pages.

Introductory treatise on how the money system works; readable and quirky, it wanders off briefly into theosophy and organic farming.
Contains quotations from Miss G. M. Coogan's "Money Creators: Who Creates Money - Who Should Create It":

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

CHAPTER I.
DEMAND FOR MONETARY REFORM IN ENGLAND.

CHAPTER II.
POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PRINCIPLES OF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS.

CHAPTER III.
THE FUNCTIONING OF THE GOLD STANDARD MONETARY SYSTEM:
Money-Manipulators and Governments.
—Defective Principles adopted by the Bank of England with regard to the Issue of Money.
—The Banker's Discovery.

CHAPTER IV.
NATIONAL FINANCE AND THE GOLD STANDARD:
The Meaning of Inflation and Deflation—Some Historical Examples of Planned Deflations.

CHAPTER V.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND THE GOLD STANDARD:
The Urge to War and Destruction.

CHAPTER VI.
THE EFFECTS OF THE GOLD STANDARD SYSTEM ON HUMAN LIFE:
Farming—Bread.

CHAPTER VII.
USURY:
The English Monetary System and Ireland.

CHAPTER VIII.
OUTLINE OF PRINCIPLES OF MONETARY REFORM:
National Monetary Reform:
(a) Abandonment of the Domestic Gold Standard.
(b) Issuing of Lawful Exchange-Medium by the State.
(c) Lending of Lawful Exchange-Medium by Banking Guild.
(d) Stability of Price Level.

CHAPTER IX.
THE FULL RETURN TO ORDER.

APPENDIX I.
MONEY—BANK—DEPOSIT.

APPENDIX II.
GARDENS, FERTILIZERS AND FINANCE:
Inorganic Fertilizers.
—Artificial Manures and Finance.
—The Ideas Underlying the Bio-dynamic Method of Composting.

APPENDIX III.
DESTRUCTION OF QUININE TO KEEP UP PRICE.

APPENDIX IV.
OUTLINE OF ENGLISH HISTORY.

"Another evil arising out of the adoption of the Domestic Gold Standard is that gold can be cornered and thus the power to seesaw prices in different countries will fall into the hands of a few men. It is bad enough to have to endure instability of prices
owing to the action of what we may call natural causes on the supply of gold: it is the very reversal of order to have the wellbeing
of the community, the Common Good, at the mercy of a few schemers, while the National Government looks on helplessly.
"Always remember," writes Miss G. M. Coogan in Money Creators, "that the price of an ounce of gold, in terms of the
currency of any nation, is purely arbitrary. . . "

"What is not generally realized about the 'Credit Cycle,' " writes R. McNair Wilson in Promise to Pay, "is that the bankers are making profits both ways, by compelling buyers to pay them tribute during the booms and by compelling sellers to pay them tribute during the slumps—and all this by means of loans of promises-to-pay what none of them possessed—money." "