Ownership Economics: On the Foundations of Interest, Money, Markets, Business Cycles and Economic Development - Rilegato

Heinsohn, Gunnar; Steiger, Otto

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ISBN 10: 0415645468 ISBN 13: 9780415645461

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

Riassunto

This book presents the first full-length explanation in English of Heinsohn and Steiger's groundbreaking theory of money and interest, which emphasizes the role played by private property rights.

Ownership economics gives an alternative explanation of money and interest, proposing that operations enabled by property lead to interest and money, rather than exchange of goods. Like any other approach, it has to answer economic theory's core question: what is the loss that has to be compensated by interest?

Ownership economics accepts neither a temporary loss of goods, as in neoclassical economics, nor Keynes's temporary loss of already existing, exogenous money as the cause of interest. Rather, money is created as a non-physical title to property in a credit contract secured by a debtor's collateral and the creditor's net worth.

This book is an edited English translation of a highly successful German text, and offers the first book-length treatment of a theory which has received much interest since its first appearance in articles in the late 1970s.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Gunnar Heinsohn is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Otto Steiger, who passed away in 2008, was a Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Frank Decker is an economist based in Sydney, Australia.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415645468
• ISBN 13: 9780415645461
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 220
• Redattore: Decker Frank
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania