1st Edition
Ricardo on Money and Finance A Bicentenary Reappraisal
Introduction: Ricardo’s monetary thought two hundred years after, Susumu Takenaga Part I: Ricardo’s monetary theory in historical context 1. Monetary disequilibrium and the demand for money in Ricardo and Thornton, David Glasner 2. Prices, value and seigniorage in Ricardo’s monetary economics, JŽr™me de Boyer des Roches 3. Old and new interpretations of classical monetary theory, Yuji Sato Part II: Aspects of Ricardo’s theory of money and finance 4. The value of money: labour theory of value and quantity theory in Ricardo’s economic theory, Susumu Takenaga 5. The role of the standard in Ricardo’s theory of money, Ghislain Deleplace 6. Interest rate, banking theory and monetary policy in Ricardo’s economics, Sylvie Diatkine 7. Ricardo’s theory of central banking: monetary system and government, Toshiaki Otomo Part III: The aftermath of Ricardo’s monetary thought 8. Ricardo versus Tooke: on the enduring value of their respective monetary theories to classical economics, Matthew Smith 9. Interwar reflections on the balance of payments: Taussig and the influence of the Ricardian bullionist tradition, Florencia Sember
Biography
Yuji Sato is Professor of Economics at Shonan Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, Japan. His previous positions include Associate Professor of Economics at Toyama University of International Studies, Toyama, Japan. A specialist in classical monetary theory and in classical economics, he has published articles on Adam Smith, Thomas R. Malthus, David Ricardo, and the history of monetary thought. He is the co-editor of Money and Finance in the History of Economic Thought.
After having obtained a master degree in the faculty of economics of Osaka City University, Susumu Takenaga was in Paris for two years to study in the doctor course of the Paris University 10 (Nanterre) and received his Ph.D in economics in 1984 with a dissertation on the theory of value of Marx in relation with the classical theory. He is Professor at Daitobunka University in Tokyo since 1996, teaching the history of economics. His research interests are in the English classical economics including Smith and Ricardo, Marx and the history of Marxism, and also Keynesian and Post-Keynesian economics.
