1st Edition
The Money Changers Currency Reform from Aristotle to E-Cash
Edited By David Boyle
Copyright 2002
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since money was invented, there has been a debate about better ways of creating it and better rules to govern how it works - until the last generation, when it began to seem that the money system had been handed down by God and remained unchanged ever since. But the last few years have seen an increasingly powerful resurgence of interest in changing the system fundamentally, and bringing the... Read more
Introduction: The Failure of Money * Part I: The Trouble with Money: There isn't enough of it * Part II: The Trouble with Money: There's too Much of it * Part III: The Trouble with Money: It's Corrupt * Part IV: Democratic Money * Part V: Future Money * Part VI: Create Your Own: Real Money * Part VII: Create Your Own: Free Money * Index
Biography
David Boyle is a senior associate at the New Economics Foundation in London and is the author of Funny Money (1999) and The Tyranny of Numbers (2001).
'Lively and illuminating.' Future Survey 'Boyle's fascinating book collates a range of key economic thinkers' arguments, from the historical to the present day, and analyses their work in a unique discourse.' The Ecologist 'A unique collection of historical and contemporary thought on the nature of money combines the political and polemical, the analytical and visionary, and draws on a wealth of expertise and experience from the early reformsers to modern critics such as Keynes and Hayek.' Book Notes. Business Horizons 4 July- August 2004
