1st Edition

Money and Markets A Doctrinal Approach

Edited By Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Alberto Giacomin Copyright 2007
272 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book brings together fourteen essays by leading authors in the field of economics to explore the relationship between money and markets throughout economic theory and history, providing readers with the key to understanding fundamental issues in monetary theory and other important debates in contemporary economics. Addressing this popular and topical area in economic discussion and debate... Read more

1. Introduction

A. Giacomin and M.C. Marcuzzo

Part I: Alternative representations of market and monetary relationships

2. Monetary and Social Relationships

C. Goodhart

3. Money, Markets and Property

G. Heinsohn and O. Steiger

4. Complex economic systems: using collective intentionality analysis to explain individual identity in networks

J.B. Davis

5. Does game theory offer "new" mathematical images of economic reality?

G. Israel

Part II: History of monetary ideas in the light of modern theory

6. Money as a social bookkeeping device. From Mercantilism to general equilibrium theory

P. Spahn

7. Money and market as twin concepts? Some lessons from the recent history of market theory

J. Cartelier

8. The monetary policy relevance of an international settlement agent: Revisiting Keynes's 1944 plan 60 years later

S. Rossi

9. Deflation. The short happy life of unconventional thinking

A. Simonazzi and F. Vianello

Part III: At the origin of monetary ideas

10. Beyond quantitativism: a reappraisal of Jean Bodin's monetary ideas

J. Blanc

11. Death in Venice – John Law: art collector and corporate financier

A. Murphy

Trinity College, Dublin

12. Smith’s two-faced theory of money

A. Giacomin

Part IV: Neglected contributions to monetary theory and policy

13. ‘Incalculability’ and Heterogeneity of Agents in Frederick Lavington’s Monetary Theory of Markets

C. Dangel-Hagnauer and A. Raybaut

13. The Revision of Monetary Theory in Fanno's analysis

M. Pomini– C. Spiller

15. The Route to All Evil: Ezra Pound's views on Money and Usury

M. Desai

Biography

Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Alberto Giacomin