Money facilitates the distribution of income asrent, wage, interest and profit.

(i) Medium of exchange
(ii) Store of value
(iii) Measure of value
(iv) Standard of deferred payment

Stagflation is a combination of stagnant economic growth, high unemployment and high inflation.

(i) The value of the monetary unit is directly linked with a certain weight of gold.
(ii) The purchasing power of a unit of money is maintained equal to the value of a fixed weight of gold.

(i) Surplus goods were exchanged for money which in turn was exchanged for other needed goods.
(ii) Goods like furs, skins, salt, rice, wheat, utensils, weapons were used as money

When the inflation is very moderate, it acts as an incentive to traders and producers. The profit due to rising prices encourages and induces business class to increase their investments in production, leading to generation of employment and income.
(i) However, hyper-inflation results in a serious depreciation of the value of money and it discourages savings.
(ii) When the value of money undergoes considerable depreciation, this may even drain out the foreign capital.
(iii) With reduced capital accumulation, the investment will suffer a serious set-back which may have an adverse effect on the volume of production.

(i) Increase in Money Supply: Inflation is caused by an increase in the supply of money which leads to increase in aggregate demand.
(ii) Increase in Disposable Income: When the disposable income of the people increases, it raises their demand for goods and services.
(iii) Increase in Public Expenditure: Government activities have been expanding due to developmental activities and social welfare programmes.

n = pk (or) p = n / k
Where
n is the total supply of money
p is the general price level of consumption goods
k is the total quantity of consumption units the people decide to keep in the form of cash.
because it is measured in terms of consumer goods.
According to Keynes, peoples desire to hold money is unaltered by monetary authority. So, price level and value of money can be stabilized through regulating quantity of money (n) by the monetary authority.
Later, Keynes extended his equation in the following form:
n = p (k + rk') or p = n/(k + rk')
Where,
n = total money supply
p = price level of consumer goods
k = peoples' desire to hold money in hand (in terms of consumer goods) in the total income of them
r = cash reserve ratio
k' = community’s total money deposit in banks, in terms of consumers goods.

Demand-Pull Inflation:
(i) Demand and supply decide the inflation level.
(ii) If the demand is high for a product and supply is low, the price of the products increase.
Cost-Push Inflation:
(i) When the cost of raw materials and other inputs rises inflation results.
(ii) Increase in wages paid to labour also leads to inflation.

(i) On the basis of speed there are four types of inflation - Creeping inflation, Walking Inflation, Running inflation, Galloping inflation.
(ii) Demand-Pull inflation, Cost-Push inflation.
(iii) On the basis of inducement - currency inflation, credit inflation, deficit induced inflation, profit induced inflation, scarcity induced inflation, tax induced inflation.

BARTER SYSTEM
(i) Exchange of goods for goods was known as “Barter Exchange” or “Barter System”.
(ii) In a barter system, the commodities and services were directly exchanged for other commodities and services.
(iii) Goods like furs, skins, salt, rice, wheat, utensils, weapons, etc. were commonly used as money.
METALLIC MONEY
(i) Under metallic standard, some kind of metal either gold or silver is used to determine the standard value of the money and currency.
(ii) Standard coins made out of the metal are the principal coins used under the metallic standard.
(iii) These standard coins are full bodied or full weighted legal tender.  Their face value is equal to their intrinsic metal value.
GOLD STANDARD
(i) Gold Standard is a system in which the value of the monetary unit or the standard currency is directly linked with gold.
(ii) The monetary unit is defined in terms of a certain weight of gold.
SILVER STANDARD
(i) The silver standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of silver.
(ii) The silver standard is a monetary arrangement in which a country’s Government allows conversion of its currency into fixed amount of silver.
PAPER CURRENCY
The paper currency standard refers to the monetary system in which the paper currency notes issued by the Treasury or the Central Bank or both circulate as unlimited legal tender.
PLASTIC MONEY
(i) The latest type of money is plastic money.
(ii) Plastic money is a term that is used predominantly in reference to the hard plastic cards used every day in place of actual bank notes.
(iii) Plastic money can come in many different forms such as Cash cards, Credit cards, Debit cards, Pre-paid Cash cards, Store cards, Forex cards and Smart cards.
CRYPTO CURRENCIES
Decentralised crypto currencies such as Bitcoin now provide an outlet for Personal Wealth that is beyond restriction and confiscation.

BASIS FOR COMPARISON	INFLATION	DEFLATION
Meaning	When the value of money decreases in the international market, then this situation is termed as inflation.	Deflation is a situation, when the value of money increases in the international market.
Effects	Increase in the general price level	Decrease in the general price level
National income	Does not declines	Declines
Gold price	Falls	Rises
Classification	Demand pull inflation, cost push inflation and stagflation.	Debt deflation, money supply side deflation, credit deflation.
Good for	Producers	Consumers
Consequences	Unequal distribution of income.	Rise in the level of unemployment.
Which is Good	A little bit of inflation is a symbol of economic growth of the country.	Deflation is not good for an economy.

Causes:
Increase in Money Supply:
1. Increase in money supply leads to increase in aggregate demand.
2. The higher the growth rate of nominal money supply, the higher is the rate of inflation.
Increase in Disposable Income:
1. When disposable income increases, it raises their demand for goods and services.
2. Disposable income may increase with the rise in national income or reduction in taxes or saving of the people.
Increase in Public Expenditure:
1. Government activities have been expanding due to developmental activities and social welfare programmes.
2. This is also a cause for price rise.
Increase in Consumer Spending:
1. The demand for goods and services increases when they are given credit to buy goods on hire-purchase and instalment basis.
Cheap Monetary Policy:
1. Cheap monetary policy leads to increase in the money supply which raises demand for goods and services.
Deficit Financing:
1. To meet the expenses, government resorts to deficit financing by borrowing from the public and even by printing more notes.
2. This raises aggregate demand leading to inflation.
Black Assets, Activities and Money:
1. It leads to corruption, tax evasion.
2. People spend black money lavishly.
3. Black marketing and hoarding reduces the supply of goods and increases.
Repayment of Public Debt:
1. Whenever government repays its past internal debt to the public, money supply increases.
Increase in Exports:
1. When exports are encouraged, domestic supply of goods decline, prices rise.
Effects:
On Production:
1. When inflation is very moderate it is an incentive to traders and producers.
2. When profit increases the business men increase their investments in production leading to more employment and income.
3. Hyper inflation leads to depreciation of the value of money and discourages savings.
4. It may even drain out the foreign capital already invested in the country.
5. The reduced capital accumulation, discourage entrepreneurs and business men from taking business risk.
6. Inflation also leads to hoarding of essential goods by traders and consumers leading to still higher inflation rate.
7. Encourages investment in speculative activities rather than productive purposes.
On Distribution:
Debtors and Creditors:
1. During inflation debtors are the gainers.
2. Debtors had borrowed when the purchasing power of money was high and now repay the loans when the purchasing power of money is low due to rising prices.
Fixed-income Groups:
1. They are worst hit because their incomes being fixed has no relationship with the rising cost of living.
Entrepreneurs:
1. Inflation is a boon to manufacturers, traders, merchants, businessmen, because it serves as a tonic for business enterprise.
2. They get windfall gains as the prices of their stocks suddenly go up.
Investors:
1. Those who invest in fixed interest yielding bonds and securities lose during inflation.
2. Those who invest in shares stand to gain by rich dividends and appreciation in value of shares.

Introduction:
(i) It was first propounded in 1588 by an Italian economist Davanzatti. It was popularised by an Americill economist, Irving Fisher is his book, "The Purchasing Power of Money" in 1911. He gave it a quantitative form in terms of "Equation of Exchange".
Equations:
MV = PT
(i) The Supply of Money = Demand for Money
M = Money Supply
V = Velocity of Money
P = Price level
T = Volume of Transaction.
(ii) The total quantity of money will be equal to the total value of all goods and services bought and sold.
\(P=\frac{M V}{T}\)
(iii) The quantity of money determines the price level and the price level varies directly with the quantity of money provided 'V' and 'T' remain constant.
(iv) Later Fisher extended his exchange to include bank deposits M₁ and its velocity V₁.
\(P T =M V+M^{\prime} V^{\prime} \)
\(P =\frac{M V+M^{\prime} V^{\prime}}{T}\)
- The price level is determined by
(a) quantity of money in circulation M
(b) velocity of circulation of money V
(c) volume of bank credit money M₁
(d) velocity of circulation of credit money V₁
(c) Volume of trade ('T')

(i) It show's the effect of changes in the quantity of money on the price level.
(ii) When quantity of money is OM₁, the price level is OP₁.
(iii) When the quantity of money is doubled to OM₂, the price level is also doubled to OP₂.
(iv) When quantity of money is increased four-fold to OM₄, the price level also increases by 4 times to OP₄ his relationship is shown by the curve OP = f(M) from the origin at 45^o.
Quantity of money
(i) Fig B shows the inverse relation between the quantity of money and the value of money.
(ii) Value of money is taken on the vertical axis.
(iii) When the quantity of money is OM₁, the value of money is OI / P₁.
(iv) When quantity of money is doubled to OM₂, the value of money becomes one half of what it was before (OI / P₂)
(v) When quantity of money increases by the four fold to OM₄, the value of among is reduced by OI / P₄
(vi) This inverse relationship between the quantity of money and the value of money is shown by downward sloping curve 1 / OP= f(M).