Re: (OPE-L) Ingham, _The Nature of Money: New Directions in Political Economy_

From: Paul C (clyder@GN.APC.ORG)
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 18:45:33 EDT 

If this is the collection that Wray has contributed to, it promises to
be very good indeed.

Gerald A. Levy wrote:

>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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