Introduction. -- Part I. Money and the market. -- The difference between markets and barter: money and the making of markets. -- Capital and the firm : the firm as the engine of the market process. -- Money and money creation in a two-stage banking system. -- Part II. Market and production. --...

Preface to the German Edition -- Preface to the English Edition -- Introduction -- Part I: Money and the Market -- Part II: Market and Production -- Part III: Money and Production in the Dynamics of the Growth Spiral - Growth Imperative and Growth Impetus -- Summary and Outlook -- References

Biographical note: Giuseppe Bertola is Professor of Economics at the University of Turin. Reto Foellmi is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich. Josef Zweimüller is Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich.