Money and Exchange : Folktales and Reality

ISBN-13: 9780415655637 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 192 str.

Sasan Fayazmanesh

Opis

Sasan Fayazmanesh covers key topics in monetary theory such as the theory of the difficulties of barter as the origin of money and the concept of exchange as an equation.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. The First Community and the Equation of Exchange 3. The Sons of Adam, Justice in Exchange and the Medieval Economy 4. The Bartering Savage and the Equation of Exchange 5. Primitive Communities, the Equation of Exchange and Proper Point of Departure 6. Mademoiselle Zélie and the ‘Scientific’ Theory of Exchange 7. Neo-Walrasiansim, the Matrix of Exchange and Beyond 8. Conclusion. Notes. References. Index

O autorze

Sasan Fayazmanesh is Associate Professor of Economics at California State University, Fresno. His current areas of research include monetary history and theory, money and banking, the history, methodology and philosophy of economics and the political economy of the Middle East.