This imaginative and ambitious book rethinks the nature of capitalism. It critically examines the three main capitalist …

Introduction and selected review of the literature -- Money as a social institution -- The economy as labor exchange … mediated by money -- Long term history of money and the market -- Money, models, and methodology -- Fetishism and … financialization -- Money and abstraction -- Conclusion …

chapter 1 Money and alternative visions of capitalism -- chapter 2 Economics and politics -- chapter 3 Methodological … issues in monetary economics -- chapter 4 The role of money in the economy -- chapter 5 The determination of interest rates … growth -- chapter 9 Endogenous money, monetary policy, and inflation -- chapter 10 A complete macroeconomic model of output …