1st Edition

What is Money?

Edited By John Smithin Copyright 2000
288 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

This volume provocatively rethinks the economics, politics and sociology of money and examines the classic question of what is money. Starting from the two dominant views of money, as neutral instrument and as social relation, What is Money? presents a thematic, interdisciplinary approach which points to a definitive statement on money. Bringing together a variety of neclassical and heterodox... Read more
1. What is Money?: Introduction  2.'Babylonian Madness': On the Historical and Sociological Origins of Money  3. Modern Money  4. The Property Theory of Interest and Money  5. The Credit Theory of Money: The Monetary Circuit Approach  6. Money and Effective Demand  7. The Invisible Hand and the Evolution of the Monetary System  8. Aristotle on Money  9. A Marxist Theory of Commodity Money Revisited  10. A Marxist Account of the Relationship between Commodity Money and Symbolic Money in the Context of Contemporary Capitalist Development  11. Menger's Theory of Money: Some Experimental Evidence  12. Dr Freud and Mr Keynes on Money and Capitalism  13. The Disappearance of Keynes's Nascent Theory of Banking between the Treatise and the General Theory 

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John Smithin