Economic, financial and social commentators from all directions and persuasion are obsessed with the prospect of recovery. The world remains mired in a deep, prolonged crisis, and the key question seems to be how to get out of it. The purpose of our paper is to ask a very different question that...

Economic, financial and social commentators from all directions and of various persuasions are obsessed with the prospect of recovery. The world remains mired in a deep, prolonged crisis, and the key question seems to be how to get out of it. The purpose of our paper is to ask a very different...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine the proposition that the monetary reform movement has correctly identified the central importance of money-issue whilst, simultaneously, not appreciated the sophistication of previous monetary theorists. Design/methodology/approach – The...