The Future of Money: From Financial Crisis to Public Resource

The Future of Money: From Financial Crisis to Public Resource
ISBN-10
0745329942
ISBN-13
9780745329949
Series
The Future of Money
Category
Business & Economics
Language
English
Published
2010-05-15
Publisher
Pluto Press
Author
Mary Mellor

Description

As the recent financial crisis has revealed, the state is central to the stability of the money system, while the chaotic privately-owned banks reap the benefits without shouldering the risks. This book argues that money is a public resource that has been hijacked by capitalism. Mary Mellor explores the history of money and modern banking, showing how finance capital has captured bank-created money to enhance speculative leveraged profits as well as destroying collective approaches to economic life. Meanwhile, most individuals, and the public economy, have been mired in debt. To correct this obvious injustice, Mellor proposes a public and democratic future for money. Ways are put forward for structuring the money and banking system to provision societies on an equitable, ecologically sustainable sufficiency basis. This fascinating study of money should be read by all economics students looking for an original analysis of the economy during the current crisis.

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