In search-theoretic models of monetary economies, equivalence between money and memory is referred to gift-giving economies. Kocherlakota and Iwai obtain on this basis interesting results. In this paper it is argued that such results should not be interpreted as their authors suggest it. As soon...

The influence of political developments on the evolution of economic thought is the main theme behind this book. As the authors reveal throughout the book, history has shown many times that political events can trigger the formulation of new economic conceptions that in turn influence the future...

The influence of political developments on the evolution of economic thought is the main theme behind this book. As the authors reveal throughout the book, history has shown many times that political events can trigger the formulation of new economic conceptions that in turn influence the future...

The purpose of this article is to show that money is not an entity but hic et nunc a genuine mode of circulation associated with a genuine social organisation. Criticising money hypostasis may help to to: (i) elucidate the ambivalence of monetary relations in our modern society (equivalence and...

This paper attempts to evaluate the consistency of the theoretical propositions inherent in the main concepts of Marx's theory of exchange and surplus-value. The principal contention is that an internal criticism of Marx's theory leads one to restate it in a different framework. This framework,...