Bossone, Biagio; Costa, Massimo - In: Economics : the open-access, open-assessment journal 15 (2021) 1, pp. 43-59
the fiat monies issued by the state (typically, cash, banknotes, and central bank money) are not debt and that in … fractional reserve regimes, only a share of commercial bank money can be regarded as debt. The AVM argues, instead, that state … monies and the nondebt share of commercial bank money are net wealth of their holders and net worth (equity) of their issuers …