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interdisciplinary perspectives

edited by Heiner Ganssmann

Routledge

x, 277 p. : ill.

Routledge international studies in money and banking

Introduction / Heiner Ganssmann -- The role and the place of money and credit in the economy of ancient Mesopotamia / Johannes Renger -- The Greek invention of money / Richard Seaford -- Explaining the origin of money : interdisciplinary perspectives / N. Emrah Aydinonat -- Weberʹs "Last theory of capitalism" and heterodox approaches to money and finance / John Smithin -- Money and sovereignty : a comparison between Hobbes and modern money theory / Jean Cartelier -- Statistical mechanics approach to the probability distribution of money / Victor M. Yakovenko -- Money, credit and the structures of social action / Heiner Ganssmann -- Money, liquidity and price / Bruce G. Carruthers -- Understanding modern money : how a sovereign currency works / L. Randall Wray -- Monetary equivalence and functionalism : implications for central banking / Dick Bryan and Mike Rafferty -- From Marx to Minsky : the universal equivalent, finance to production and the deepening of the real subsumption of labour under capital / Riccardo Bellofiore -- Money, expectations, physics and financial markets : paradigmatic alternatives in economic thinking / Hansjeorg Herr -- The second end of laissez-faire : the bootstrapping nature of money and the inherent instability of capitalism / Katsuhito Iwai.

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2011

9780415595254 (hb) ,

Includes bibliographical references and index.

2011