The People’s Money
The Case for Public Banking in the United States
Seiten
2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-4901-8 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-4901-8 (ISBN)
The People’s Money shows how sovereign money creation through public banking, as pioneered by nineteenth century American populists, can reduce inequalities of wealth and power and help restore prosperity and democracy in America.
The People’s Money: The Prospect for Public Banking in the United States, offers a broad account and analysis of the most radical policy proposal of the populist movement: a new monetary currency issued by a public banking system. Nineteenth century American populists proposed a radical theory of sovereign money creation through public banking. Money would be issued as loans based on collateral to individuals at local public banks, much as it is created by private banks in the existing banking system. Public banking, however, would operate as a non-profit community service. Usurious rates would be replaced by 1% fixed interest, corresponding to the natural rate of resource depreciation over a lifetime. The populist idea of a natural rate of interest represents an intriguing confluence of ecological and monetary thinking.
The populists argued that democracy requires economic security that only property ownership can provide. In shifting the benefits of credit from lenders to borrowers, they aimed to promote widespread ownership of property. They opposed all monopolies of property, especially those of private finance. Unlike socialists, who favored collective control over production, populists sought to reform capitalism by widely distributing credit among individuals. With exorbitant rates of interest eliminated, borrowers would be freed of the servitude to creditors demanded by excessive interest rates. They would retain, perhaps for the first time in history, the full benefit of their loans for themselves and their families.
The People’s Money: The Prospect for Public Banking in the United States, offers a broad account and analysis of the most radical policy proposal of the populist movement: a new monetary currency issued by a public banking system. Nineteenth century American populists proposed a radical theory of sovereign money creation through public banking. Money would be issued as loans based on collateral to individuals at local public banks, much as it is created by private banks in the existing banking system. Public banking, however, would operate as a non-profit community service. Usurious rates would be replaced by 1% fixed interest, corresponding to the natural rate of resource depreciation over a lifetime. The populist idea of a natural rate of interest represents an intriguing confluence of ecological and monetary thinking.
The populists argued that democracy requires economic security that only property ownership can provide. In shifting the benefits of credit from lenders to borrowers, they aimed to promote widespread ownership of property. They opposed all monopolies of property, especially those of private finance. Unlike socialists, who favored collective control over production, populists sought to reform capitalism by widely distributing credit among individuals. With exorbitant rates of interest eliminated, borrowers would be freed of the servitude to creditors demanded by excessive interest rates. They would retain, perhaps for the first time in history, the full benefit of their loans for themselves and their families.
Adrian Kuzminski writes on political and philosophical issues. His works include Fixing the System: A History of Populism, Ancient & Modern (2008), The Ecology of Money: Debt, Growth, and Sustainability (2013), Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism (2008), and Pyrrhoniam Buddhism (2021).
Chapter One: The Bankers’ Monopoly
Chapter Two: The Creation of Money
Chapter Three: Democratic Capitalism
Chapter Four: Fiat Money
Chapter Five: National Public Banking
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.11.2023 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 157 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 426 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-4901-9 / 1666949019 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-4901-8 / 9781666949018 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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