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Record Nr.

UNINA9910348221703321

Autore

Fayazmanesh Sasan <1950->

Titolo

Money and exchange [[electronic resource] ] : folktales and reality / / Sasan Fayazmanesh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y ; ; London, : Routledge, 2006

ISBN

1-134-42318-7

1-280-54324-8

9786610543243

0-203-96558-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; ; 77

Disciplina

332.4

332.49

Soggetti

Exchange - History

Exchange

Money - History

Money

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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 Zelie and the ""scientific"" theory of exchange; 7 Neo-Walrasianism, the matrix of exchange, and beyond; 8 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 criti