Aschheim, Joseph; Tavlas, George S. - In: Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review 59 (2006) 239, pp. 333-361
At the beginning of the twentieth century, most economists took it for granted that the primary function of money is its role as a medium of exchange and that moneyshould consist of, or be backed by, gold, or silver, or both. This paper discusses three writers--Alexander Del Mar, Georg Knapp,...