What is Money?

✍ Scribed by John Smithin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking, Number 6
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 a social relation, What is Money? presents a thematic, interdisciplinary approach which points to a definitive statement on money.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 8
List of tables......Page 9
List of contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
What is money? Introduction JOHN SMITHIN......Page 12
'Babylonian madness': on the historical and sociological origins of money GEOFFREY INGHAM......Page 27
Modern money L.RANDALL WRAY......Page 53
The property theory of interest and money GUNNAR HEINSOHN AND OTTO STEIGER......Page 78
The credit theory of money: the monetary circuit approach ALAIN PARGUEZ AND MARIO SECCARECCIA......Page 112
Money and effective demand VICTORIA CHICK......Page 135
The invisible hand and the evolution of the monetary system KEVIN DOWD......Page 150
Aristotle on money SCOTT MEIKLE......Page 168
A Marxist theory of commodity money revisited STEVE FLEETWOOD......Page 185
A Marxist account of the relationship between commodity money and symbolic money in the context of contemporary capitalist development PETER KENNEDY......Page 205
Menger's theory of money: some experimental evidence PETER G.KLEIN AND GEORGE SELGIN......Page 228
Dr Freud and Mr Keynes on money and capitalism GILLES DOSTALER AND BERNARD MARIS......Page 246
The disappearance of Keynes's nascent theory of banking between the Treatise and the General Theory COLIN ROGERS AND T.K.RYMES......Page 268
Index......Page 281