Selected Contents: 1. Japanese Lesson 2. The Total War Economy 3. Winning the Peace: An Economy at War 4. The Alchemy of Banking 5. Credit: The Economic High Command 6. The First Bid for Central Bank Independence 7. Japan's First Bubble Economy 8. Mysterious Money: The Ebb and Flow of the Yen 9. The Great Yen Illusion: Credit Bubble and Bust 10. How to Prolong a Recession 11. The Bank of the Yen 12. At the Trigger of Gum 13. The Princes of the Yen 14. The Goal of Monetary Policy 15. Back to the Future: The Return of US-style Capitalism 16. Reflation: Another Miracle in the Making 17. The Asian Crisis and the Central Bankers 18. More Power for the Princes 19. The Revival of the Reichsbank