The Nature of MoneyIn this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the ‘social relation’ of money.
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Contents
Commodities | |
What is Money? | |
The Historical Origins of Money and its Pre | |
The Development of Capitalist CreditMoney | |
The Production of Capitalist CreditMoney | |
Monetary Disorder | |
New Monetary Spaces | |
Concluding Remarks | |
Notes | |
References | |
Index | |
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abstract value argued Bank of England bank’s bankers banking system barter bills of exchange Cambridge capitalism capitalist central bank chapter circulation coinage coins commodity theory conception of money creation creditors currency debt debtors deflation deposits economic theory economists established example exchange rate existence fiscal foreign exchange markets forms of money function global gold standard historical inflation Ingham interest rates issue issuers Keynes Keynes’s labour loans London means of payment medium of exchange Methodenstreit modern monetary policy monetary space monetary system money of account money supply money’s nature of money networks neutral veil notes orthodox economic precious metal quantity of money question rate of interest rational Schumpeter 1994 settlement Simmel Smithin social relations sociology sovereign sovereignty state’s store of value structure struggle theory of money transactions twentieth century unit of account University Press value of money Weber Wergeld Wray