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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452534903321

Autore

Ekstedt Hasse

Titolo

Money in economic theory / / Hasse Ekstedt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-07651-6

1-283-89451-3

1-135-12604-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Routledge international studies in money and banking ; ; 75

Disciplina

332.401

Soggetti

Money

Economics

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

Introduction, scopes, and methods -- The understanding of money : a retrospective glance -- Money, value, and prices in neoclassical economic theory -- Money, value and prices in the Keynesian and monetarist theories -- Concluding comments on the nature of money in economic theory -- Uncertainty, money, and liquidity -- Inter-temporal valuation, expectations, and stability -- Money and stability.

Sommario/riassunto

The financial crash of 2008 showed the fragility of the financial system. A key question which surfaced in the aftermath of the global crisis was why economists were unable to predict this crash. This new volume argues that this failure can be attributed, at least in part, to the poor and inconsistent treatment of money and monetary matters in economic theory. The book takes this problem as its starting point, and from there aims to develop a more consistent treatment of the topic.Here, Hasse Ekstedt affirms that the treatment of money in economic theory has been inconsistent and tha