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Trang 1Pi Gamma Mu, International Honor Society in Social Sciences
The Economics of Money, Credit, and Banking by J Cyril James
Review by: J Ray Cable
Social Science, Vol 11, No 1 (January 1936), p 73
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Trang 2BOOK REVIEWS 73 These monetary controversies of a former genera-
tion are, however, not relevant to present-day
practical interests ."
The monetary developments of the past few
years controversies have brought "from back the approach to monetary
the standpoint of an active present interest" (It is questionable whether this
approach should ever have been so much neg-
lected), and Professor Garis' book exemplifies this
revival The author is vigorous in his attack upon
unsound monetary legislation, proposals and the-
ories, and makes his position clear in no uncertain
terms This does not mean that his work is not
impartial and scholarly, for he has taken pains to
treat fairly the various points of view involved,
quoting directly whenever possible
Professor Garis' comprehensive text for univer-
sity money and banking courses not only treats the
general theory and history but also gives attention
to the important recent developments in legisla-
tion and literature It is evident that the author
has spared no effort to produce a really up-to-date
volume
The work falls into two equal parts The first
five hundred-odd pages cover money and credit,
about three-fifths of the space being devoted to the
former subject The remaining 530 pages handle
banking The treatment of money ends with Chap-
ter XI on Monetary Reforms Here the author
urges that our currency system should be simplified
"by the abolition of all types of circulation except
Federal Reserve notes (backed by a 25 per cent
instead of a 40 per cent gold reserve), SI and $2
United States notes, and subsidiary coins." He be-
lieves that "in the very near future the United
States should return to the gold standard - not as
an end in itself, but 'managed' as one means to
the attainment of a relatively stable price system."
It should not be inferred, however, that his posi-
tion is to make price stabilization the goal of
monetary and credit policy For in Chapter XVIII
on The Control of Credit, which ends the section
of the book relating to credit, he states plainly that
he believes "a rigid stability of the price level is
not only undesirable but impossible," and that the
goal should be to keep credit conditions normal and
healthy and to prevent abuse of credit Progress
toward this goal would naturally have some tend-
ency to help toward securing more stability in the
price level
In the banking section of the work, the author
shows good judgment, it seems to me, in restrict-
ing the discussion of agricultural banking to one
chapter and that of non-commercial banking to
two chapters It might have been worth while to
close this section of the book with a chapter on
banking reforms
When the book is revised, it will probably prove
desirable to replace the verbatim presentation of
legislation and certain other detailed and lengthy
matters (all of which it is important and valuable
at the moment to cite verbatim) by succinct expla-
nation, and to shift to an appendix that part of
the replaced matter deemed important for its
original form or phraseology Also, some of the
discussions of recent developments may well be
shifted from the chapters in which they appear at
present to other chapters where they would seem
logically to fit in better Thus, the discussion on gold devaluation and related topics might possibly
be taken out of the chapter on the Federal Reserve System: Administrative Organization and added
to the chapter on The Gold Standard Many other rearrangements may be made to secure greater unity in the case of some of the chapters
Professor Garis' work constitutes a first-class text for students of money and banking, and it should prove most serviceable as a readable and thoroughgoing source of information for the gen- eral reader
- Clyde William Phelps Head Department of Economics and Commerce University of Chattanooga
The Economics of Money, Credit, and Banking
By J Cyril James New York: Ronald Press, 1935
671 pp $4.00
It is a great pleasure to record the appearance
of a second and revised edition of this exceedingly useful text First published in 1929, it attracted wide attention by its functional approach and clear- cut presentation of the really important factors of money and banking without undue inclusion of unimportant detail However, the reviewer read the original edition with a feeling that the desire for brevity had been carried too far, and remembers having written the author suggesting that he really write a book around his most excellent outline The new edition meets with his approval in that respect Changes are now so rapid in monetary and banking fields that no textbook can lay claim to presentation of existing facts if the ink is really dry Frequent and extensive revision must be ex- pected And here Professor James has done a superlatively good job The revised edition runs through thirty-one chapters, each showing evidence
of careful reconsideration of the material given in the first edition Although the name has been re- tained, the book has been largely rewritten, and
is much improved In the reviewer's opinion, it is now the most effective text available for the be- ginning: student
- J Ray Cable Associate Professor of Finance and Banking Washington University
Criminology By Albert Morris New York: Long- mans, Green & Co., 1934 xii, 590 pp $3.50
X or much too long ponderous and "academic" have been synonyms, felt that in order and scholars seem to have
to be intelligent they must be unintelligible Professor Morris' Criminology is a marked departure from such a school Not only is
it authoritative and intelligent, but it is highly intelligible and well written It is a book in which critical insight has been sharpened on a respect and an excusable affection for words
The validity and thoroughness of the author's treatment has already been commented on so fa- vorably by such authorities as William Healy and Austin MacCormick that it seems superfluous
to say more In covering the whole field of crim- inology, Morris never loses the human being in a
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