Foreword: A biographical note on Bernard Schmitt
Introduction
PART I - 1959–1987: The years of Schmitt’s greatest insights
A. From money to capital
1 The discovery of the true nature of money and the origin of its purchasing power
2 The building blocks of a theory of national money: from Monnaie, salaires et profits (1966) to Théorie unitaire de la monnaie, nationale et internationale (1975)
3 Schmitt’s critical analysis of neoclassical, Keynesian, Marxian, and Sraffian economics from 1959 to 1988
4 1979–1984: The discovery of quantum time
5 Quantum economics and capital
6 Schmitt’s 1984 explanation of inflation and unemployment and the principles of his 1984 reform
B. From national to international money
7 International payments as a cause of monetary disorders
8 Schmitt’s first proposals for a world monetary reform
9 Schmitt’s contribution to the debate on European monetary unification: 1975–1988
PART II - 1987–1998: The years of further in-depth analysis
10 1987–1995: Schmitt’s first extended analysis of countries’ external debt
11 The analysis of capital and interest based on Schmitt’s unpublished manuscripts of 1993–1996
12 Schmitt’s new analysis of unemployment: his 1998 contribution
13 The development of Schmitt’s criticism of general equilibrium analysis
14 From capitalism to post-capitalism
PART III - 1999–2014: The final years of groundbreaking analysis
15 Towards the ‘interest theorem’: the double cost of interest payments
16 The final criticism of general equilibrium analysis
17 The discovery of the pathological nature of countries’ sovereign debt (2010–2014)
18 The one-country solution to the sovereign debt problem
Conclusion
Biography
Alvaro Cencini is Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland.
