Full Description
This book challenges traditional notions and offers a new perspectives on the nature, role and use of money. It offers analyses and proposals aimed at reshaping our comprehension of money, its genesis, and its pivotal role within the economy (in particular, globalized ones).
The book is structured into three parts, each tackling various facets of monetary economics, drawing from the author's prior research and confronting such fundamental quandaries as the essence of money, money's genesis by commercial banks, the economic ramifications of banks' money creation power, the value of money (vis à vis other assets), and the implications of changes in the value of money for the policy space in globalized economies.
This book aims to conceptualize innovative solutions to create more resilient and stable monetary systems while taking into account the intricate interplay between money, banks and government budgets in today's globalized economic landscape. Overall, the book strives to provide a thorough and thought-provoking examination of monetary theory, using novel approaches to offer new perspectives. By taking an interdisciplinary view, including accounting, physics and economics, the book challenges conventional wisdom and encourages a re-evaluation of established paradigms.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. On Money.- Chapter 2. What is Money: Debt or Equity?.- Chapter 3. The Utility of Money.- Chapter 4. Money in a Sequence Economy.- Chapter 5. Money Creation by Banks.- Chapter 6. Money, Banks and Seigniorage.- Chapter 7. Money Quanta.- Part II. On "Sound" Money.- Chapter 8. Preventing Banks from Creating Money.- Chapter 9. Superstable Money (I): Separating Bank Money Creation from Lending.- Chapter 10. Superstable Money (II): Separating Money Creation from Banks.- Part III. On Money Effectiveness.- Chapter 11. On Money Effectiveness: Beyond the Lucas Critique.- Chapter 12. Money and Secular Stagnation.- Chapter 13. The Portfolio Theory of Inflation And Money (In)Effectiveness.- Chapter 14. Indifference Between State Money and Public Debt.- Chapter 15. The Fatal Flaws of Modern Money Theory.- Chapter 16. Fiscal Money.
