Money and payments in theory and practice
By: Sergio Rossi.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New Yok
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415373371
Subjects: Monetary policy; Payment; Banks and banking; Banks and banking, Central; International finance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Money and credit; title: The essence of money; title: The commodity theory of money: a critical appraisal; title: The chartalist theory of money: an analytical assessment; title: The mechanisms of credit; title: Banks and credit; title: Credit and production; title: Money and credit supply; title: Endogenous money and credit; title: Banks and payments; title: The monetary macroeconomics of banking; title: The dual function of banks; title: The meaning and purchasing power of bank deposits; title: The monetary macroeconomics of payments; title: Payments on the labour market; title: Payments on the financial market; title: Payments on the market for produced goods and services; title: The central bank and the state; title: The monetary macroeconomics of interbank payments; title: The characteristics and workings of the national payment system; title: The dual function of a central bank in domestic payment systems; title: The monetary macroeconomics of state payments; title: Some conceptual shortcomings in the state theory of money; title: The dual function of a central bank in state payments; title: International settlement systems; title: The current architecture for international payments; title: The lack of an international settlement institution; title: The lack of international money emissions; title: Reforming the international monetary architecture; title: The working of an international settlement institution; title: The working of international money emissions; title: Monetary policy strategies; title: Inflation theory and inflation targeting: a critical appraisal; title: Some conceptual and analytical shortcomings; title: Inflation in an endogenous money system; title: A structural target for monetary policy: payment systems' reform; title: The required structural change in domestic payment systems; title: The operationalization of payment systems' reform; title: Bibliography; title: Author index; title: Subject index.