Gold and Silver, why fitted for those purposes. § 3. Money a mere contrivance for facilitating exchanges, which does not affect the laws of value. Chapter V. Of The Value Of Money, As Dependent On Demand And Supply. § 1. Value of Money, an ambiguous expression. § 2. The Value of Money depends on its quantity. § 3. —Together with the Rapidity of Circulation. § 4. Explanations and Limitations of this Principle. Chapter VI. Of The Value Of Money, As Dependent On Cost Of Production. § 1. The value of Money, in a state of Freedom, conforms to the value of the Bullion contained in it. § 2. —Which is determined by the cost of production. § 3. This law, how related to the principle laid down in the preceding chapter. Chapter VII. Of A Double Standard And Subsidiary Coins. § 1. Objections to a Double Standard. § 2. The use of the two metals as money, and the management of Subsidiary Coins. § 3. The experience of the United States with a double standard from 1792 to 1883. Chapter VIII. Of Credit, As A Substitute For Money. § 1. Credit not a creation but a Transfer of the means of Production. § 2. In what manner it assists Production. § 3. Function of Credit in economizing the use of Money. § 4. Bills of Exchange. § 5. Promissory Notes. § 6. Deposits and Checks. Chapter IX. Influence Of Credit On Prices. § 1. What acts on prices is Credit, in whatever shape given. § 2. Credit a purchasing Power, similar to Money. § 3. Great extensions and contractions of Credit. Phenomena of a commercial crisis analyzed. § 4. Influence of the different forms of Credit on Prices. § 5. On what the use of Credit depends. § 6. What is essential to the idea of Money? Chapter X. Of An Inconvertible Paper Currency. § 1. What determines the value of an inconvertible paper money? § 2. If regulated by the price of Bullion, as inconvertible Currency might be safe, but not Expedient. § 3. Examination of the doctrine that an inconvertible Current is safe, if representing actual Property. § 4. Experiments with paper Money in the United States. § 5. Examination of the gain arising from the increase and issue of paper Currency. § 6. _Résumé_ of the subject of money. Chapter XI. Of Excess Of Supply. § 1. The theory of a general Over-Supply of Commodities stated. § 2. The supply of commodities in general can not exceed the power of Purchase. § 3. There can never be a lack of Demand arising from lack of Desire to Consume. § 4. Origin and Explanation of the notion of general Over-Supply. Chapter XII. Of Some Peculiar Cases Of Value. § 1. Values of commodities which have a joint cost of production. § 2. Values of the different kinds of agricultural produce. Chapter XIII.