The role of gold in the world#s exchange system has been hotly contested by leading economists like John Locke, David Hume and Maynard Keynes # who attacked gold # and Jacques Rueff. Nevertheless, the arguments in favour of gold, which includes the quantity theory of money, have remained scattered. With the assistance of the World Gold Council, Pickering & Chatto has collected the most important arguments in favour of gold, including such seminal works as David Ricardo#s High Price of Bullion and W Stanley Jevons, Money and the Mechanism of Exchange. Volume 1 Gerard de Malynes, #A Treatise of the Canker of England#s Commonwealth# (1601); John Locke, Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money (1691); David Hume, from Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary (1752); Richard Cantillon, from Essay on the Nature of Trade in General (1755); Henry Thornton, Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain (1802) Volume 2 Francis Horner, Report, together with Minutes of Evidence, and Accounts, from the Select Committee on the High Price of Gold Bullion (1810); Thomas Robert Malthus, #Depreciation of Paper Currency# (1811); David Ricardo, High Price of Bullion, a Proof of the Depreciation of Bank Notes (1811); David Ricardo, from Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817); John Stuart Mill, from Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy (1848); George Goschen, from The Theory of the Foreign Exchanges (1861); W Stanley Jevons, from Money and the Mechanism of Exchange (1875) Volume 3 W Stanley Jevons, from Investigations in Currency & Finance (1884); Carl Menger, #On the Origins of Money# (1892); Knut Wicksell, from Lectures on Political Economy (1901#6); Ludwig von Mises, from The Theory of Money and Credit (1912); D. H. Robertson, from Money (1922); R G Hawtrey, The Gold Standard in Theory and Practice (1927); Murray N Rothbard, The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar (1962