General Theory) was money. Tracing the origins and uses of money, the myth of the development of money as a medium of exchange … is dispelled and replaced with money used as evidence of debt; specifically, government debt. This paper was presented as … money. The only significant change that has been made is to add several endnotes that will make some of the references more …

twentieth century on the nature of money. Only recently rediscovered, these articles are reprinted and analyzed here for the …Introduction / L. Randall Wray and Stephanie Bell -- What is money? / A. Mitchell Innes -- The credit theory of money … / A. Mitchell Innes -- The social origins of money : the case of Egypt / John F. Henry -- The archaeology of money : debt …

This paper argues that the usual framing of discussions of money, monetary policy, and fiscal policy plays into the … generally. To put it the way that economists usually do, money "lubricates" the market mechanism - a good thing, because the … chance. The paper advances an alternative framing for money and shows how it can be used to reshape discussion. The paper …