Aspects of the pathology of money : monetary essays from four decades

Professor Heilperin is a life-long student of international monetary relations. In this book, he has brought together his most important articles and mono graphs written from the mid-thirties to the mid-sixties. They deal with the principal aspects of international mone tary disturbances or, as the author likes to call it, with the 'pathology of money'.

In Professor Heilperin's opinion, the two principal diseases from which money may suffer are, domestically, inflation and internationally, incon vertibility of currencies. The two prin cipal sections of the book are accord ingly devoted to each of these two principal groups of problems.

The book, however, falls into four parts, not two. There is an introductory section dealing with a well functioning monetary system, and a final section devoted to the 'grand debate' over a cure to the world's current monetary ills.

Although the sixteen essays com prising this book have been written over the span of four decades, the bo can be read as a continuing story, It the hope of the author that som readers, at least, will attempt to rea the book in this way.