Seigniorage On the Revenue from the Creation of Money /

• Main Author: Reich, Jens (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Finance, Public.; Evolutionary economics.; Macroeconomics.; Economics.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Public Finance.; Institutional/Evolutionary Economics.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Economic Systems.

This book analyzes the revenues from the creation of currency by a central government. Adopting an institutional perspective, it develops a general theory of seigniorage by identifying three monetary regimes in economic history and the history of economic thought: a commodity currency, a fiat curren...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1 Seigniorage in Institutional Perspective
• 2 Seigniorage in the History of Economic Thought
• 3 Seigniorage from Fiat Currency: Presents State of Economics
• 4 Seigniorage from Commodity Currency
• 5 Seigniorage from  Credit Currency
• 6 Seigniorage in Mixed Currency Systems
• 7 Extended Seignorage
• 8 General Theory of Seigniorage.