v.1. Central bank functions: Part I. The government bank: 1. A short of the bank of England / Michael Godfrey ; 2. Concerning the renewal of the reichsbank privilege / W. Lexis ; 3. The banking system of Japan / Baron Sakatani, S. Naruse and O.M.W Sprague ; 4. Indian banking / John Maynard Keynes -- Part II. Monetary management: 5. An enquiry into the nature and effects of the paper credit of Great Britain / Henry Thornton ; 6. The bank of England in 1953 / R.S. Sayers ; 7. The bank of Canda’s approach to central banking / E.P. Neufeld -- Part III. Lender of last resort: 8. Observations on the establishment of the bank of England and on the paper circulation of the country / Sir Francis Baring ; 9. Banking in Connection with the currency and the bank of England / Thomson Hankey ; 10. What a panic is and how it might be mitigated / Walter Bagehot ; 11. The bank’s administration of the reserve / Walter Bagehot ; 12. Conclusions as to treasury relief in crises / David Kinley ; 13. The treasury and the panic / O.M.W. Sorague ; 14. The bank of France and crises / Maurice Patron ; 15. Industry and finance in Italy / Pierluigi Ciocca and Gianni Toniolo ; 16. Discussions in America prior to the foundation of the federal reserve system / Vera C. Smith ; 17. The arguments in favour of central banking reconsidered / Vera C. Smith ; 18. The relevance of free banking today / Lawrence H. White ; 19. The new Swiss central note bank / Alenxader Erdély ; 20. The Bagehot problem / Fred Hirsch ; 21. Problems of efficiency in monetary management / Harry G. Johnson ; 22. Why do banks need a central bank? / C.A.E. Goodhart. – v.2. Performance. Part I. Conflict of interest: 1. The bank of the United States / Charles A. Conant ; 2. The principles which should regulate the amount of banking reserve to be kept by the bank of England / Walter Bagehot ; 3. The baring crisis and its lessons / J.W. Gilbart ; 4. Gold reserves, banking reserves / L.S. Pressnell -- Part II. Macroeconomic performance: 5. The credit policies of the reichsbank / Carl-Ludwig ; 6. The economic consequences of Mr. Chiurchill / John Maynard ; 7. The activities of the deferral reserve system / Ircing Fisher ; 8. The great contraction, 1929-33 / Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson ; 9. Central banking in the light of recent British and American Experience / R.S. Sayers ; 10. Central banking and money market changes / Hyman P. Misky. – v.3. Discretion and autonomy. 1. A brief account of the intended bank on England / William Paterson ; 2. A letter to the right honourable lord viscount Melbourne on the causes of the recent derangement in the money market, and on bank reform / R. Torrens ; 3. Review of the currency principle in its application to our banking systems / Thomas Tooke ; 4. Do we want an elastic currency? / F.M. Taylor ; 5. A United reserve bank of the United States / Paul M. Warburg ; 6. A brief survey of banking literature since 1913 / Lloyd W. Mints ; 7. The theoretical basis of central banking / R.S. Sayers ; 8. The end of the central bank controversy / Irving Brecher ; 9. The equation of exchange / Irving Fisher ; 10. Rules versus authorities in monetary policy / Henry C. Simons ; 11. A monetary and fiscal framework for economic stability / Milton Friedman ; 12. Should there be an independent monetary authority? / Milton Friedman ; 13. Monetary policy: theory and practice / Milton Friedman ; 14. The necessary and the desirable range of discretion to be allowed to a monetary authority / Jacob Viner.