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

This study is concerned with the time-honored problem of the change that is induced when money enters into the economy. As far back as Aristotle (Politics, pp. 1135-1143) the still-unanswered question regarding the dichotomy of the real-exchange and the monetary economy was raised. He contrasted Oec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Suhr, Dieter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1989, 1989
Edition:1st ed. 1989
Series:Studies in Contemporary Economics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Second-Best Capitalism
  • 1 The Actual Standard of Welfare in Capitalism
  • 2 Symptoms of Suboptimal Capitalism
  • 3 The Significance of Money
  • 2 Money’s Costs and Benefits
  • 4 The Transaction Cost Approach
  • 5 The Concept of Interest-Bearing Money
  • 6 The Equalization of Money’s Cost and Benefit
  • 3 The Production and Destruction of Monetary Liquidity
  • 7 Production Costs and Benefits of Monetary Liquidity
  • 8 Rewarding the Marplot in the Game of the Monetarized Economy
  • 9 Private Destruction and Reissue of Money
  • 4 Optimal Monetary Liquidity
  • 10 Neutral Money
  • 11 Predecessors
  • 12 The Monetary Welfare Optimum
  • 5 Establishing Neutral Money
  • 13 Cost-Bearing Money: An Historical Retrospective
  • 14 The Realization of Neutral Money
  • References