This chapter summarizes the case for considering money as a legal institution. The Western liberal tradition …, represented here by John Locke’s iconic account of money, describes money as an item that emerged from barter before the state … existed. Considered as an historical practice, money is instead a method of representing and moving resources within a group …

"money" in a capitalist society? And, indeed, what is "power" in the first place? In the following I will try to develop a …

Elsewhere I argue that the legal concept of property was created in the image of money in the late Roman Republic … main way of structuring financial corporate power, especially money market funds (MMFs), is a propertization of contractual … financial corporate power, especially MMFs and their money ]creation mechanism. The paper also explores how the propertization …