A Handbook of Alternative Monetary Economics

by Malcolm C. Sawyer and Philip Arestis

Book Overview

This major Handbook consists of 29 contributions that explore the full range of exciting and interesting work on money and finance currently taking place within heterodox economics. There are many themes and facets of alternative monetary and financial economics but two major ones can be identified. The first concerns the nature of money: money is credit created through the financial system in the process of loan creation. The second theme is that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848441193
• ISBN13: 9781848441194
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 544 Pages