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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816674203321

Autore

Heinsohn Gunnar

Titolo

Ownership economics : on the foundations of interest, money, markets, business cycles and economic development / / Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger ; translated and edited with comments and additions by Frank Decker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-13189-9

0-203-07746-6

1-299-28054-4

1-135-13190-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 168

Altri autori (Persone)

DeckerFrank

SteigerOtto

Disciplina

330

Soggetti

Money

Interest

Property

Capital

Economics

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 (pages [167]-184) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ownership economics: an introduction / Frank Decker Ownership Economics -- On the foundations of interest, money, markets, business cycles and economic development / Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger -- Preface to the first german edition of ownership economics -- Possession and ownership : use of goods versus economic activity -- The blindness of the great schools of economics towards ownership -- The economic core of the ownership system : interest, money and property assets 4. the market as the result of the ownership-based economy -- Issues associated with ownership in developming and transformation countries.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the first full-length explanation in English of Heinsohn and Steiger's groundbreaking theory of money and interest,



which emphasizes the role played by private property rights.Ownership economics gives an alternative explanation of money and interest, proposing that operations enabled by property lead to interest and money, rather than exchange of goods. Like any other approach, it has to answer economic theory's core question: what is the loss that has to be compensated by interest?Ownership economics accepts neither a temporary loss of goods, as in