The capitalistic cost-benefit structure of money :
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[Book]
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an analysis of money's structural nonneutrality and its effects on the economy.
First Statement of Responsibility
Dieter Suhr
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New York
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Springer
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1989
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x, 136 p. ; 24 cm.
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Studies in contemporary economics.
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1 Second-Best Capitalism.- 1 The Actual Standard of Welfare in Capitalism.- 1.1 Freedom, Responsibility and Efficiency.- 1.2 Suboptimal Results.- 1.3 Returns on Mere Capital.- 1.4 Returns from High to Low Level of Marginal Utility.- 1.5 The Standard of Marginal Efficiency of Capital.- 1.6 Escaping Habitual Modes of Thought.- 2 Symptoms of Suboptimal Capitalism.- 2.1 Misallocations.- 2.2 Disparities of Wealth.- 2.3 Unemployment.- 2.4 Equilibrium Problems.- 2.5 Financial Hydrocephaly.- 3 The Significance of Money.- 3.1 Money, a Prerequisite for a Modern Economy.- 3.2 Money as an Unfair Competitor.- 3.3 The Significance of the Money-Rate of Interest.- 2 Money's Costs and Benefits.- 4 The Transaction Cost Approach.- 4.1 Economizing Economic Communication through Money.- 4.2 Acquisition Cost of Issued Money.- 4.3 Transaction Needs and Demand for Money.- 4.4 Money Interest as Transaction Cost.- 4.5 Similar Approaches and Adjacent Problems.- 5 The Concept of Interest-Bearing Money.- 5.1 Equalization of Cash Holder's Opportunity Cost.- 5.2 The Real Equalization Problem.- 5.3 Real Costs and Opportunity Costs of Money.- 5.4 Doubling of Liquidity-Premium.- 6 The Equalization of Money's Cost and Benefit.- 6.1 Cost of Initial Acquisition of Money.- 6.2 A Paradigmatic Equalization of Money's Cost and Benefit.- 6.3 Separating Money's Costs from its Benefits.- 6.4 Generalizing the Paradigm of Equalization.- 6.5 Low Production Cost and High Liquidity-Premium.- 6.6 Storage Costs of Money and Storage Costs of Commodities.- 6.7 Uncertainty and the Equalization Problem.- 3 The Production and Destruction of Monetary Liquidity.- 7 Production Costs and Benefits of Monetary Liquidity.- 7.1 Issue of Money and Production of Liquidity.- 7.2 The Equalization Problem Restated.- 7.3 Symmetric Contributions to and Benefits from the Production of Liquidity.- 7.4 Asymmetric Contributions to and Benefits from the Production of Liquidity.- 8 Rewarding the Marplot in the Game of the Monetarized Economy.- 8.1 Cash Holders' Liquidity-Premium.- 8.2 Reciprocity and the Double Coincidence of Timing in the Economic Game.- 8.3 Rewards for Sabotaging the Game.- 8.4 The Self-Destructive Structure of the Game.- 8.5 Dictating the Rules of the Game.- 8.6 The Capitalistic Delusion.- 9 Private Destruction and Reissue of Money.- 9.1 Private Quasi-Issue of Money.- 9.2 The Private Money Issue-Premium as a Monetary Prebend.- 9.3 Cash as a Buffer and an Operating Basis.- 9.4 Shifting Time Preferences.- 9.5 Monetary Transaction Constraints.- 9.6 Credit Budget Restrictions.- 4 Optimal Monetary Liquidity.- 10 Neutral Money.- 10.1 Historical Remarks.- 10.2 From Biased to Neutral Money.- 10.3 Prospects for the Performance of Neutral Money.- 10.4 Savings and Investments.- 10.5 Money as the Joker in the Economic Game.- 10.6 Money Acquisition Cost of Sellers.- 10.7 Cost-Bearing Money vs. Inflation.- 10.8 Illustrations.- 11 Predecessors.- 11.1 John Maynard Keynes.- 11.2 Silvio Gesell.- 11.3 Irving Fisher.- 11.4 Maurice Allais.- 11.5 Other "Monetary Heretics".- 12 The Monetary Welfare Optimum.- 12.1 Equal Marginal Utility of Assets.- 12.2 Equal Marginal Cost and Benefit.- 12.3 Reinternalization of Money's Externalities.- 12.4 Real vs. Nominal Marginal Efficiency of Capital.- 12.5 Ecological Aspects of Neutral Money.- 5 Establishing Neutral Money.- 13 Cost-Bearing Money: An Historical Retrospective.- 13.1 The Grain Giro System in Ancient Egypt.- 13.2 The Medieval Bracteaten Currency.- 13.3 Free-Money Projects in the Thirties.- 13.4 "The Stamp Scrip Movement in the U.S.A." by Hans R. L. Cohrssen.- 14 The Realization of Neutral Money.- 14.1 General Aspects.- 14.2 The Next Step in Monetary Evolution.- 14.3 Neutral Money as a Financial Innovation.- References.