For a long time, books were the medium of diffusion favoured by researchers seeking to expound their approaches and their findings. The book format enabled authors to unfold their ideas gradually, to debate the arguments advanced by their contemporaries and to situate themselves precisely...

Chapter 1. Introduction to the English Edition -- Chapter 2. The Violence of Money (excerpt) -- Chapter 3. Enhancing the Political Economy of Money through History -- Chapter 4. Collective Introduction to La Monnaie souveraine -- Chapter 5. The Monetary Order of Market Economies -- chapter 6....

Far more than the problem of the quantity of money, false money was the central issue in monetary debates that occurred in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It first referred to sovereignty, in a time of state-building, as well as to a serious economic problem. Beyond...

[fre] Si le currency board établi en Lituanie en avril 1994 s'est accompagné de la stabilité monétaire, il n'a pas pour autant bénéficié de la crédibilité qu'il était censé apporter. Ce texte s'interroge sur ce défaut de crédibilité. On examine d'abord l'hypothèse courante selon...

[eng] Parallel money : appraisal and theoretical stakes of the phenomenon. Parallel money consist of means of payment and units of account employed beside the national currencies in the internal relations of contemporary States. An inventory shows 465 cases of parallel money in 136 States on a...