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

Heinsohn, Gunnar

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1138241288 ISBN 13: 9781138241282

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2016

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.

Su questo libro

L'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.

 

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138241288
• ISBN 13: 9781138241282
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224