For a long time, books were the medium of diffusion favoured by researchers seeking to expound their approaches and their findings. The book format enabled authors to unfold their ideas gradually, to debate the arguments advanced by their contemporaries and to situate themselves precisely...

Chapter 1. Introduction to the English Edition -- Chapter 2. The Violence of Money (excerpt) -- Chapter 3. Enhancing the Political Economy of Money through History -- Chapter 4. Collective Introduction to La Monnaie souveraine -- Chapter 5. The Monetary Order of Market Economies -- chapter 6....

This book gathers several important texts and offers a general overview of the institutionalist approach to money developed in France since the 1980s.These texts highlight the specificities of the French monetary approaches and display their main contributions to the understanding of monetary...