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Ingham and Keynes on the Nature of Money

In: Financial Crises and the Nature of Capitalist Money

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In 1933, Keynes wrote of the need for a monetary theory of production — that is, a theory of production and value in a monetary economy (Keynes, 1933). He argued that the distinction between a barter and a monetary economy, traditionally made by economists, needed to be recast as one between a real-exchange economy (a fictional theoretical construct created by economists) and the monetary economy we actually observe. A real-exchange economy may use money as a means of exchange (the characteristic traditionally attributed to a monetary economy) but the role of money is neutral, a simple go-between in a relation between things, more efficient than barter, which drops out on consolidation when we consider the economy as a whole. Rather Keynes sought a theoretical conception of the observable market economy which recognises, as anything but neutral, the essential role of money in its operation.

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  • M. G. Hayes, 2013. "Ingham and Keynes on the Nature of Money," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Jocelyn Pixley & G. C. Harcourt (ed.), Financial Crises and the Nature of Capitalist Money, chapter 2, pages 31-45, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-30295-3_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137302953_3
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    1. Ingham, Geoffrey, 2004. "The nature of money," economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, vol. 5(2), pages 18-28.
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    Keywords

    Interest Rate; Real Wage; European Central Bank; Monetary Economy; Capital Control;
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    JEL classification:

    • B12 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Classical (includes Adam Smith)
    • B31 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Individuals
    • E01 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts
    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

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