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Contents & Contributors
Volume I: Development of Heterodox
Approaches to Money and Banking
Acknowledgements
Introduction: An Overview of Heterodox
Approaches to Money and Financial Institutions
L. Randall Wray
PART I HISTORICAL DEBATES ON THEORIES
OF MONEY
1. Charles A.E. Goodhart (1998), ‘The Two
Concepts of Money: Implications for the
Analysis of Optimal Currency Areas’
2. John Maynard Keynes (1979), ‘The
Distinction Between a Co-Operative Economy
and an Entrepreneur Economy’
PART II HISTORICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL AND
ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO MONEY
3. Philip Grierson (1977), ‘The Origins of
Money’
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4. Geoffrey Ingham (2000), ‘“Babylonian
Madness”: On the Historical and Sociological
Origins of Money’
5. Mark S. Peacock (2006), ‘The Origins of
Money in Ancient Greece: The Political
Economy of Coinage and Exchange’
6. Viviana A. Zelizer (1989), ‘The Social
Meaning of Money: “Special Monies”’
PART III KEYNESIAN AND INSTITUTIONALIST
APPROACHES TO MONEY
7. John Maynard Keynes (1973), ‘A Monetary
Theory of Production’
8. Dudley Dillard (1980), ‘A Monetary Theory of
Production: Keynes and the Institutionalists’
9. Éric Tymoigne (2003), ‘Keynes and
Commons on Money’

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