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1 online resource (439 pages) |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part I: Concepts and Theories; Introduction; Money's Puzzles and Paradoxes; An Outline of Contents; 1. Money as a Commodity and 'Neutral' Symbol of Commodities; The Meta-theoretical Foundations of Orthodox Monetary Analysis; Quantity Theory and the Value of Money; An Analytical Critique of Commodity Theory; The Persistence of Orthodoxy; Conclusions; 2. Abstract Value, Credit and the State; Early Claim and Credit Theory; The Nineteenth-Century Debates: Gold and Credit; The German Historical Schools and the State Theory of Money |
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The Influence on KeynesPost-Keynesian Theory: Endogenous Money and the Monetary Circuit; Modern Neo-Chartalism; Conclusions; 3. Money in Sociological Theory; Money as a Symbolic Medium; Marx and Marxian Analysis; Simmel's The Philosophy of Money; Weber on Money; 4. Fundamentals of a Theory of Money; What is Money?; How is Money Produced?; The Value of Money; 5. The Historical Origins of Money and its Pre-capitalist Forms; Origins of Money: Debt and Measure of Value; The Early Development of Coinage; The Roman Monetary System; Conclusions; 6. The Development of Capitalist Credit-Money |
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The De-linking of the Money of Account and the Means of PaymentThe De-linking of the Money of Account and the Evolution of Capitalist Credit-Money; The Transformation of Credit into Currency; Conclusions; 7. The Production of Capitalist Credit-Money; The Social Structure of Capitalist Credit-Money; The Working Fiction of the Invariant Standard; Conclusions; 8. Monetary Disorder; The Rise and Fall of Inflation in the Late Twentieth Century; Debt Deflation and the Case of Japan; Argentina's Monetary Disintegration; 9. New Monetary Spaces; Technology and New Monetary Spaces |
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Europe's Single CurrencyPart: II History and Analysis; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the 'social relation' of money. Genuinely multidisciplinary approach, based on a thorough knowledge of theories of money in the social sciences An original development of the neglected heterodox theories of money New histories of the origins and development of forms of money and their social relations of production in different monetary systems A radical interpretation of capitalism as a particular type of monetary system and the first sociolog |
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Print version record |
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Capitalism.
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Money.
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Money -- Philosophy
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Money -- Social aspects
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Capitalism
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Money
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Money -- Philosophy
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Money -- Social aspects
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780745638034 |
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0745638031 |
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