Fiat versus Representative Money under Debate, or How Right Keynes Was Once (!)

The applied economics understands the concept of money nearly exclusively through the quantitative theory, which certainly remains one of the greatest theories in this topic area. On the other hand, the history of money – be it old or contemporary -- finds two other “nonquantitative” theories as mor...

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Main Author: Liviu C. ANDREI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: General Association of Economists from Romania 2011-05-01
Series:Theoretical and Applied Economics
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Online Access: http://store.ectap.ro/articole/589.pdf
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description The applied economics understands the concept of money nearly exclusively through the quantitative theory, which certainly remains one of the greatest theories in this topic area. On the other hand, the history of money – be it old or contemporary -- finds two other “nonquantitative” theories as more relevant in the respect that they are able to “cover” this history – these are representative and fiat money. Then, there comes the interesting point: this history “covered”, meaning a full explaining of facts would be made by the two theories and images of the same money just “together”—which is impossible in basic good sense terms, as money (as anything else) cannot be real and fictitious value in the same time.
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Fiat versus Representative Money under Debate, or How Right Keynes Was Once (!)
Theoretical and Applied Economics
fiat money
representative money
seniorage
barter (and its system)
commodity money
international monetary system (IMS)
macroeconomics
optimum currency area (OCA)
economic theory
title Fiat versus Representative Money under Debate, or How Right Keynes Was Once (!)
title_full Fiat versus Representative Money under Debate, or How Right Keynes Was Once (!)
title_fullStr Fiat versus Representative Money under Debate, or How Right Keynes Was Once (!)
title_full_unstemmed Fiat versus Representative Money under Debate, or How Right Keynes Was Once (!)
title_short Fiat versus Representative Money under Debate, or How Right Keynes Was Once (!)
title_sort fiat versus representative money under debate or how right keynes was once
topic fiat money
representative money
seniorage
barter (and its system)
commodity money
international monetary system (IMS)
macroeconomics
optimum currency area (OCA)
economic theory
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