This paper explores the intellectual history of the state, or chartalist, approach to money, from the early developers (Georg Friedrich Knapp and A. Mitchell Innes) through Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, and Abba Lerner, and on to modern exponents Hyman Minsky, Charles Goodhart, and...

It is commonplace to speak of central bank "independence" as if it were both a reality and a necessity. While the Federal Reserve is subject to the "dual mandate", it has substantial discretion in its interpretation of the vague call for high employment and low inflation. Most important, the...

This paper explores the rise of money and class society in ancient Greece, drawing historical and theoretical parallels to the case of ancient Egypt. In doing so, the paper examines the historical applicability of the chartalist and metallist theories of money. It will be shown that the origins...

Wie ruiniert man eine Währung? Geld kann nicht Unrecht tun, heisst es IBM doch Politiker, die für unser Geld verantwortlich sind, schon. Im vergangenen Jahrzehnt wurde im Namen der Banken- und Staatenrettung Geld gedruckt, als gäbe es kein Morgen mehr. Und da Politiker nie um eine Erklärung...