might serve as a useful refresher for those who (still) think that national currencies should be backed one-for-one by precious metals. It is something a shame that Silber starts his story only with the founding of the United States, for the history of silver and its effect on the world economy goes back at least to mid-16th century. Silber manages to provide cogent explanations of how metal-based currency systems work, or don’t, as well as flesh out some fascinating yet lesser-known denizens of, in particular, the US Senate over the past century and a half. Silber, How Volcker Created a Gold Standard Without Gold, Bloomberg News. Silber tells the story of these outsized personalities and financial shenanigans with gusto and evident relish. Silber, Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence, 165 William L. His many books include When Washington Shut Down Wall Street and Volcker. The first is a detailed history of silver-in the United States.The second is a page-turner of a financial-political multi-generational thriller worthy of, say, John Grisham, filled with larger-than-life speculators, businessmen, manipulators, crooks and politicians-it not always being easy to tell them apart. Silber is the Marcus Nadler Professor of Finance and Economics at.

The Story of Silver is two different books threaded together. Silber (Author) 68 ratings 3.8 on Goodreads 218 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 22.08 15 Used from 9.24 1 New from 49.95 Paperback 34.68 1 New from 34. If you thought a book entitled The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World and published by the venerable and academic Princeton University Press would be a dull, dense, heavily-footnoted tome, you’d be wrong.

Volcker by William L. Silber