Money and Inflation: A New Approach to Monetary Analysis for the 21st Century

Contents
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1 Introduction
	References
2 Existing Literature: A Brief Tour
	The Commodity Theory of Money
	The Credit Theory of Money
	Concluding Remarks on the Literature
	References
3 What Is Money?
	Methodological Considerations
	Finding Money Through Some Hypothetical Transactions
	Potential Money
	Concluding Remarks
	References
4 The Origin of Money as the Ability to Obtain Goods and Services
	Market-Based Transactions
	Non-Market-Based Transactions
	One-Sided Transactions
	References
5 Money as the Ability Vis-à-Vis Other Concepts
	Commodity Money
	Credit Money
	References
6 Money as the Ability and Some Related Issues
	Money Vis-à-Vis the Purchasing Power
	Money Creation, Transfer, and Destruction
	Universality of Money
	The Name of the Money
	References
7 Money as the Ability and Inflation
	Economic Analysis of Inflation
	Money, Price Level, and Inflation
	References
8 The Causes of Inflation
	Inflation due to Increased Human Desire
	Inflation due to Government Policies
	Concluding Remarks on Inflation
	References
9 Some After Thoughts and the Question of Economic Policies
	References
References
Index