From: Gerald A. Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 10:12:41 EDT
This was brought to my attention by Rakesh. There is also a paperback edition being sold for US$29.95./In solidarity, Jerry The Nature of Money[:New Directions in Political Economy] Format Hardcover Subject Social Science / Research ISBN/SKU 0745609961 Author Geoffrey K. Ingham Publisher Blackwell Pub Publish Date April 2004 Price $64.95 Table of Contents Preface viii Part 1 Concepts and Theories 1 (86) Introduction 3 (12) Money's Puzzles and Paradoxes 3 (7) An Outline of Contents 10 (5) 1 Money as a Commodity and 'Neutral' Symbol of Commodities 15 (23) The Meta-theoretical Foundations of Orthodox Monetary Analysis 16 (3) Quantity Theory and the Value of Money 19 (3) An Analytical Critique of Commodity Theory 22 (6) The Persistence of Orthodoxy 28 (5) Conclusions 33 (5) 2 Abstract Value, Credit and the State 38 (21) Early Claim and Credit Theory 39 (2) The Nineteenth-Century Debates: Gold and Credit 41 (6) The German Historical Schools and the State Theory of Money 47 (3) The Influence on Keynes 50 (2) Post-Keynesian Theory: Endogenous Money and the Monetary Circuit 52 (3) Modern Neo-Chartalism 55 (1) Conclusions 56 (3) 3 Money in Sociological Theory 59 (10) Money as a Symbolic Medium 60 (1) Marx and Marxian Analysis 61 (2) Simmel's The Philosophy of Money 63 (3) Weber on Money 66 (3) 4 Fundamentals of a Theory of Money 69 (18) What is Money? 69 (5) How is Money Produced? 74 (6) The Value of Money 80 (7) Part II History and Analysis 87 (110) 5 The Historical Origins of Money and its Pre-capitalist Forms 89 (18) Origins of Money: Debt and Measure of Value 90 (7) The Early Development of Coinage 97 (4) The Roman Monetary System 101 (4) Conclusions 105 (2) 6 The Development of Capitalist Credit-Money 107 (7) The De-linking of the Money of Account and the Means of Payment 109 (3) The De-linking of the Money of Account and the Evolution of Capitalist Credit-Money 112 (9) The Transformation of Credit into Currency 121 (10) Conclusions 131 7 the Production of Capitalist Credit-Money 114 (38) The Social Structure of Capitalist Credit-Money 136 (8) The Working Fiction of the Invariant Standard 144 (6) Conclusions 150 (2) 8 Monetary Disorder 152 (23) The Rise and Fall of Inflation in the Late Twentieth Century 153 (6) Debt Deflation and the Case of Japan 159 (6) Argentina's Monetary Disintegration 165 (10) 9 New Monetary Spaces 175 (22) Technology and New Monetary Spaces 177 (11) Europe's Single Currency 188 (9) Concluding Remarks 197 (8) Notes 205 (23) References 228 (13) Index 241
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