# Economics of Money and Banking ## The Four Prices of Money - Big picture - Financial globalization - Attach to the reality and listen to the bankers - Resources - Stigum's _Money Market_, - "The Bible of Money Market" - Read as if you are an anthropologist reading sacred text from a primitive tribe - News paper _Financial Times_, the ongoing sacred text - Prerequisites - Intermediate Macroeconomics and Intermediate Microeconomics (If you're econ major) - Fischer Diagram and LM Curve - But, we don't start from these theories. We start from reality without imposing these structures right away