Ontology and Function of Money (eBook)

The Philosophical Fundamentals of Monetary Institutions

Leonidas Zelmanovitz (Autor)

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2015
488 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-9512-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines the characteristics of monetary institutions and the ways in which a clear understanding of money, and a sense of what we can know about money, can improve our comprehension on monetary policy. It establishes a link between abstract and theoretical aspects of monetary theory and the problems with money and banks we face today.

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The central thesis of the book is that in order to evaluate monetary policy, one should have a clear idea about the characteristics and functions of money as it evolved and in its current form. That is to say that without an understanding about how money evolved as a social institution, what it is today, and what is possible to know about monetary phenomena, it is not possible to develop a meaningful ethics for money; or, to put it differently, to find what kind of institutional arrangements may be deemed good money for the kind of society we are in. And without that, one faces severe limitations in offering a normative position about monetary policy. The project is, consequently, an interdisciplinary one. Its main thread is an inquiry of moral philosophy and its foundations, as applied to money, in order to create tools to evaluate public policy in regard to money, banking, and public finance; and the views of different schools on those topics are discussed. The book is organized in parts on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and politics of money to facilitate the presentation of all the subjects discussed to an educated readership (and not necessarily just one with a background in economics).

Autor

Leonidas Zelmanovitz is fellow at the Liberty Fund.

Inhalt

5. What is it Possible to Know about Money?Optimum Amount of Credit Under a 100% Reserve Requirement11. The Future of Money12. Concluding Chapter

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.12.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
• Zusatzinfo: 23 Illustrations including: - 4 Black & White Illustrations; - 19 Tables.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Austrian Economics • Economics • Economic Theory • epistemology of money • Finance • history of money • metaphysics of money • monetary policy • Monetary Theory • MONEY • money ethics • philosophy of money • politics of money
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-9512-3 / 0739195123
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-9512-3 / 9780739195123