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• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview
• PART I: The Dark Side of Paper Currency: Tax and Regulatory Evasion, Crime, and Security Issues
• Chapter 2: The Early Development of Coins and Paper Currency
• Chapter 3: Size and Composition of Global Currency Supplies, and the Share Held Abroad
• Chapter 4: Holdings of Currency in the Domestic, Legal, Tax-Paying Economy
• Chapter 5: Currency Demand in the Underground Economy
• Chapter 6: Seigniorage
• Chapter 7: A Plan for Phasing Out Most Paper Currency
• PART II: Negative Interest Rates
• Chapter 8: The Cost of the Zero Bound Constraint
• Chapter 9: Higher Inflation Targets, Nominal GDP, Escape Clauses, and Fiscal Policy
• Chapter 10: Other Paths to Negative Interest Rates
• Chapter 11: Other Possible Downsides to Negative Nominal Policy Rates
• Chapter 12: Negative Interest Rates as a Violation of Trust and a Step Away from Rule-Based Systems
• PART III: International Dimensions and Digital Currencies
• Chapter 13: International Dimensions to Phasing Out Paper Currency
• Chapter 14: Digital Currencies and Gold
• Afterword to the Paperback Edition
• Final Thoughts
• Acknowledgments
• Appendix
• Notes
• References
• Index