The Enigma of Money Gold, Central Banknotes, and Bitcoin /

• Main Author: Nishibe, Makoto (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Evolutionary economics.; Macroeconomics.; Economic policy.; Economic history.; Economics.; Institutional/Evolutionary Economics.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Economic History.; Economic Policy.

This book provides a new way of understanding modern money and markets by stressing their self-fulfilling/self-destructive properties as institutions from evolutionary perspectives. In contrast to an unrealistic view of the neoclassical general equilibrium theory that models the price mechanism of a...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: The Enigma of Money: If We Understand Money, We Will Understand Economy
• Chapter 2: Is Money a “Thing” or an “Event”? : Reconsidering Money and Market
• Chap 3: Money as “the Self-fulfillment of Ideas”: the Difference between Bank Notes and Bitcoin
• Chap 4: The Disease Haunting Money: Its Relationship to Bubbles
• Chap 5: Why is Capitalist Economy Unstable? On Hyperinflation and Speculation
• Chapter 6: The Crisis of Capitalism and the “Quality“ of money.