October 2023
Intermediate to advanced
220 pages
8h 55m
English
It is easy for opponents of the orthodox theory of money (type A1x) to criticize the commitment to real analysis, because when taken to a certain extreme, the choice for real analysis precludes the very possibility of developing a theory of money: “There is no analytical place for money at all” (Ingham 2001: 307). If the core element of economic activity is the act of exchange, and if that act can be theorized in its pure form as barter – the swapping of one commodity directly for another – then money could never be more than a secondary phenomenon. All of the descriptions of money as a “technical device” that overcomes inconveniences and all of the discounting designators of money ...
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