The Currency of Politics (eBook)

The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes

Stefan Eich (Autor)

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2022
344 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23544-8 (ISBN)

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Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970sIn the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, critical attention has shifted from the economy to the most fundamental feature of all market economies-money. Yet despite the centrality of political struggles over money, it remains difficult to articulate its democratic possibilities and limits. The Currency of Politics takes readers from ancient Greece to today to provide an intellectual history of money, drawing on the insights of key political philosophers to show how money is not just a medium of exchange but also a central institution of political rule.Money appears to be beyond the reach of democratic politics, but this appearance-like so much about money-is deceptive. Even when the politics of money is impossible to ignore, its proper democratic role can be difficult to discern. Stefan Eich examines six crucial episodes of monetary crisis, recovering the neglected political theories of money in the thought of such figures as Aristotle, John Locke, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes. He shows how these layers of crisis have come to define the way we look at money, and argues that informed public debate about money requires a better appreciation of the diverse political struggles over its meaning.Recovering foundational ideas at the intersection of monetary rule and democratic politics, The Currency of Politics explains why only through greater awareness of the historical limits of monetary politics can we begin to articulate more democratic conceptions of money.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.5.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 8 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Advanced capitalism • Aristotle • A Treatise on Money • balance of trade • Call money • Capital control • capital injection • Capitalism • Central Bank • Central Banks • Coalition Government • commodification • Commodity • Credit (finance) • Credit Money • Crisis Management • Critical theory • Currency • Currency Act • Currency In Circulation • Currency swap • debt • democratic deficit • Depoliticization • Direct Marketing • Dollar Diplomacy • domestic policy • economica • economic democracy • economic justice • economic nationalism • Economic planning • Economic Policy • economy • Economy and society • Epistemology • exchange value • External Debt • Fiat Money • Fichte • Financial Crisis • financialization • Financial Market • Fiscal-military state • Fiscal Policy • Foreign Exchange Market • foreign policy • For Marx • Global Finance (magazine) • Global politics • Governance • Government • Government bond • Government budget balance • Government Debt • Habermas • Hayek • Historiography • Inflation • Inflation Targeting • Institution • International Trade • Investment • Keynes • Keynesian Economics • Legislation • Libertarianism • Locke • Market Economy • Market Mechanism • Marx • Medium of exchange • monetary policy • Monetary Reform • Monetary Sovereignty • monetary system • MONEY • Money Supply • moral imperative • Multilateralism • Neoliberalism • Nomisma • north–south divide • Opinion Poll • Opportunism • Pierre-Joseph Proudhon • Polemic • Policy • political agenda • Political Campaign • Political Economy • Political entrepreneur • Political History • Political Liberalism • Political Philosophy • Political Science • political strategy • Political System • Politics • price mechanism • Profit (economics) • Revenue • Sociology • Standard of Value • The general theory of employment, interest and money • Theory of value (economics) • Treaty • value-form • Voting • Wealth • world currency
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23544-9 / 0691235449
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23544-8 / 9780691235448