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Property Rights on Credit and State Control of Money: The Irrelevance of the Origin of Money

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  • Soldatos Gerasimos T.

    (American University of Athens, Emeritus, Athens, Greece)

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Looking briefly at the anthropological and sociological findings regarding the emergence of money in primordial times, and at the relationship between money and the state in historical times after the emergence of money, this article makes the point that credit money is associated with externalities justifying state intervention even if money did not emerge as debt money. The extent of state intervention is eventually a political matter given that money is needed in addition to finance public goods.

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  • Soldatos Gerasimos T., 2018. "Property Rights on Credit and State Control of Money: The Irrelevance of the Origin of Money," The Economists' Voice, De Gruyter, vol. 15(1), pages 1-5, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:evoice:v:15:y:2018:i:1:p:5:n:12
    DOI: 10.1515/ev-2018-0031
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    Keywords

    Origin of money; state control of money; property rights on credit money;
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    JEL classification:

    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
    • D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
    • D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
    • E02 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Institutions and the Macroeconomy
    • E50 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - General
    • O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General

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