The Capitalistic Cost-Benefit Structure of Money
An Analysis of Money’s Structural Nonneutrality and its Effects on the Economy

Authors: Prof. Dr. Dieter Suhr



Table of contents (14 chapters)

Front Matter

Second-Best Capitalism
• The Actual Standard of Welfare in Capitalism
• Symptoms of Suboptimal Capitalism
• The Significance of Money

Money’s Costs and Benefits
• The Transaction Cost Approach
• The Concept of Interest-Bearing Money
• The Equalization of Money’s Cost and Benefit

The Production and Destruction of Monetary Liquidity
• Production Costs and Benefits of Monetary Liquidity
• Rewarding the Marplot in the Game of the Monetarized Economy
• Private Destruction and Reissue of Money

Optimal Monetary Liquidity
• Neutral Money
• Predecessors
• The Monetary Welfare Optimum

Establishing Neutral Money
• Cost-Bearing Money: An Historical Retrospective
• The Realization of Neutral Money

Back Matter