Introduction -- Compounding financialization, critical pluralist political economy, and historical-institutional balance-sheet analysis -- Political economy and the financialization of American banking -- The centralization and financialization of American monetary authority -- Shadow banking,...

Economics and the Philosophical Discourse on Money -- On Conceptual Frameworks and the Role of a Philosophical Discourse on Money -- Aristotle and the Philosophical Discourse on Money: Ethics, Politics and the Nature of Monetary Value -- Objects, Money and the Grounds of Monetary Value -- Money...

1. Introduction : money puzzles / Heiner Ganssmann -- 2. The role and the place of money and credit in the economy of ancient Mesopotamia / Johannes Renger -- 3. The Greek invention of money / Richard Seaford -- 4. Explaining the origin of money : interdisciplinary perspectives / N. Emrah...