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Money and Exchange
Folktales and Reality
Routledge Studies in the History of Economics Series
Author: Fayazmanesh Sasan
Language: EnglishSubject for Money and Exchange:
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Monetary Theory; monetary; Monetary Relation; theory; Money Commodity; relations; Non-money Commodities; commodity; Walrasian General Equilibrium Theory; non-money; Walras’s Theory; commodities; Indirect Exchange; walrass; Walras’s General Equilibrium Theory; indirect; Pure Barter Economy; walrasian; General Equilibrium Theory; general; Contemporary Society; U1 U2 U3 U4 U1; Physico Mathematical Sciences; Barter Values; Medieval Economy; Qualitative Relation; Double Coincidence; Jevons’s Concepts; Aristotle’s Equation; Mademoiselle; Follow; Medieval Exchange; Quantitative Relation; Marginalist Theorists; Simple Commodity Production
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Whether a theoretical system is realistic or not has been a concern in economics, particularly in monetary theory, over the past century. Following John R. Hicks? proposal that a realistic monetary theory could be constructed along an evolutionary path, starting with the workings of a real market, this volume considers whether we can look to the medieval economy as the point of departure.
Drawing upon the work of Aristotle, scholastic economists, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, William Stanley Jevons, Léon Walras and many modern monetary theorists, this intriguing book provides a critical analysis of some basic theories of monetary analysis. Concentrating primarily on certain fundamental building blocks it covers:
- the theory and mathematical properties of barter and monetary relations
- the distinction between barter and monetary relations and money and non-money commodities
- the concept of exchange as an equation, and the notion of the exchange relation as a relation of equality.
This groundbreaking study dispels some of the old myths and conjectures concerning money and exchange and opens up the way for the development of new approaches, both realistic and evolutionary, of interest to researchers and students of the history of monetary theory and economic thought.
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
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.