The purpose of this article is to show that money is not an entity but hic et nunc a genuine mode of circulation associated with a genuine social organisation. Criticising money hypostasis may help to to: (i) elucidate the ambivalence of monetary relations in our modern society (equivalence and...

This chapter inquires into what could or should be a Classical theory of money and prices sixty years after Sraffa's Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities' publication. It takes as granted three basic propositions: (i) Sraffa's system of prices is relevant for determining Classical...