Money and Capital: A Critique of Monetary Thought, the Dollar and Post-Capitalism

ISBN-13: 9781032424255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str.

Laurent Baronian

Opis

This book presents a systematic analysis of Marx’s theory of money, exploring the 2008 financial crisis, the profit rate, household debt and inequality, the finance and banking systems, and the state’s intervention in money and labour.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1 The modes of being of money  1. Money, its modes of being and its functions  2. The paradoxes of the Currency school-Banking school debate  Part 2 Critique of monetary thought  3. Keynes' two monies  4. The impossible demand for money of thecClassics and Friedman's Keynesianism   5. Money-flow and money-stock in post-Keynesian theory  6. The utopian imperialism of Modern Monetary Theory  7. Neither barter nor chartalism Part 3 The dollar policy   8. The inter-role of the dollar  9. The dollar and its relative autonomy 10. The dollarisation of the world through crises  11. Ordomonetarism: the original neoliberalism  Part 4 The politics of money  12. The euthanasia of the rentier and the skeleton of socialism  Conclusion: digital currencies and post-capitalism

O autorze

Laurent Baronian is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France. His research interests include the history of economic thought, monetary theory and history, labour in the age of information and communication technologies, and the theory and practice of the commons.