What is Money？(Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking)
by John Smithin (Author)

Paperback: 287 pages
Publisher: Routledge;
This edition published in the Taylor&Francis e-Library,2002.
ISBN 0-203-07269-3 Master e-book ISBN

Contents
List of figures vii
List of tables viii
List of contributors ix
Acknowledgements x
1 What is money?Introduction 1
JOHN SMITHIN
2‘Babylonian madness’:on the historical and sociological
origins of money 16
GEOFFREY INGHAM
3 Modern money 42
L.RANDALL WRAY
4 The property theory of interest and money 67
GUNNAR HEINSOHN AND OTTO STEIGER
5 The credit theory of money:the monetary circuit approach 101
ALAIN PARGUEZ AND MARIO SECCARECCIA
6 Money and effective demand 124
VICTORIA CHICK
7 The invisible hand and the evolution of the monetary system 139
KEVIN DOWD
8 Aristotle on money 157
SCOTT MEIKLEvi Contents
9 A Marxist theory of commodity money revisited 174
STEVE FLEETWOOD
10 A Marxist account of the relationship between commodity
money and symbolic money in the context of contemporary
capitalist development 194
PETER KENNEDY
11 Menger’s theory of money:some experimental evidence 217
PETER G.KLEIN AND GEORGE SELGIN
12 Dr Freud and Mr Keynes on money and capitalism 235
GILLES DOSTALER AND BERNARD MARIS
13 The disappearance of Keynes’s nascent theory of banking
between the Treatise and the General Theory 257
COLIN ROGERS AND T.K.RYMES
Index 270