While credit cards provide transaction services, as do currency and demand deposits, credit cards have never been included in measures of the money supply. The reason is accounting conventions, which do not permit adding liabilities, such as credit card balances, to assets, such as money. But...

Lo scopo principale del presente Quaderno di ricerca e' quello di ritagliare l'esatto posto, per importanza e contenuto, che le teorie del circuito monetario occupano all'interno del pensiero economico. Spesse volte esaltate, nell'illusione di essere giunti davanti a paradigmi di equilibrio...

Efficient progress of the monetary theory of production (MTP) is hampered by an unsatisfactory account of how profit and interest emerge in the monetary circuit. As matter of fact, this question puzzled already the classics. It seems evident that it cannot be answered by applying the usual...

This paper locates the endogenous money approach in a circuitist framework. It argues for the significance of the credit creation process for the evolution of the economy and the absence of any notion of ‘neutrality of money’. Clearing banks are distinguished from other financial...

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