Financial Crises and the Nature of Capitalist Money: Mutual Developments from the Work of Geoffrey Ingham

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction to Positive Trespassing....Pages 1-18
Requirements of a Philosophy of Money and Finance....Pages 19-30
Ingham and Keynes on the Nature of Money....Pages 31-45
Money: Instrument of Exchange or Social Institution of Value?....Pages 46-69
Group-think and the Current Financial Crisis....Pages 70-78
A New Meme for Money....Pages 79-100
Monetary Surrogates and Money’s Dual Nature....Pages 101-123
Reforming Money to Exit the Crisis: Examples of Non-capitalist Monetary Systems in Theory and Practice....Pages 124-147
The Current Banking Crisis in the UK: An Evolutionary View....Pages 148-161
Money and the State....Pages 162-177
The Real (Social) Experience of Monetary Policy....Pages 178-195
Economic Policies of the New Consensus Macroeconomics: A Critical Appraisal....Pages 196-215
A Socioeconomic Systems Model of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007+: Power, Innovation, Ideology and Regulatory Failures....Pages 216-247
Credit Money, Fiat Money and Currency Pyramids: Reflections on the Financial Crisis and Sovereign Debt....Pages 248-272
Geoffrey Ingham’s Theory, Money’s Conflicts and Social Change....Pages 273-299
Reflections....Pages 300-322
Back Matter....Pages 323-329