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In a challenge to conventional views on modern monetary and fiscal policy, this book presents a coherent analysis of how money is created, how it functions in global exchange rate regimes, and how the mystification of the nature of money has constrained governments, and prevented states from acting in the public interest.
In a challenge to conventional views on modern monetary and fiscal policy, this book presents a coherent analysis of how money is created, how it functions in global exchange rate regimes, and how the mystification of the nature of money has constrained governments, and prevented states from acting in the public interest.
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- ISBN-10: 0230368891
- Artikelnr.: 36164577
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- Verlag: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
- Seitenzahl: 294
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 17mm x 142mm x 217mm
- Gewicht: 388g
- ISBN-13: 9780230368897
- ISBN-10: 0230368891
- Artikelnr.: 36164577
- Herstellerkennzeichnung Die Herstellerinformationen sind derzeit nicht verfügbar.
L. RANDALL WRAY is a professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA, as well as Research Director, the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, and Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, New York. A student of Hyman P. Minsky while at Washington University in St. Louis, Wray has focused on monetary theory and policy, macroeconomics, financial instability, and employment policy. He has published widely in journals and is the author of Understanding Modern Money: The Key to Full Employment and Price Stability (Elgar, 1998) and Money and Credit in Capitalist Economies (Elgar 1990). He is the editor of Credit and State Theories of Money (Edward Elgar 2004) and the co-editor of Contemporary Post Keynesian Analysis (Edward Elgar 2005), Money, Financial Instability and Stabilization Policy (Edward Elgar 2006), and Keynes for the twenty-first century: The Continuing Relevance of The General Theory, Palgrave, 2008. Wray is also the author of numerous scholarly articles in edited books and academic journals, including the Journal of Economic Issues, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Review of Political Economy, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Economic and Labour Relations Review, Economie Appliquée, and the Eastern Economic Journal. Wray received a B.A. from the University of the Pacific and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Rome, the University of Paris, and UNAM (Mexico City). He was the Bernardin-Haskell Professor, UMKC, Fall 1996, and joined the UMKC faculty as Professor of Economics, August 1999.
Basics of Macro Accounting Spending by Issuer of Sovereign Currency Basics of the Operation of Domestic Monetary Systems Fiscal Operations Alternative Policy for Sovereign Currencies Modern Money and Macro Stabilizers What is Money? Conclusions on the Nature of Money
Contents
List Of Illustrations
Preface
Box: Definitions
Introduction The Basics Of Modern Money Theory
1. The Basics Of Macroeconomic Accounting
1.1.The Basics Of Accounting For Stocks And Flows
1.2.MMT, Sectoral Balances, And Behavior
1.3. Stocks, Flows, And Balance Sheet: A Bathtub Analogy
1.4. Government Budget Deficits Are Largely Nondiscretionary: The Case Of
The Great Recession Of 2007
1.5. Accounting For Real Versus Financial
1.6. Recent US Sectoral Balances: Goldilocks And The Global Crash
2. Spending By Issuer Of Domestic Currency
2.1. What Is A Sovereign Currency?
2.2. What Backs Up Currency And Why Would Anyone Accept It?
2.3. Taxes Drive Money
2.4. What If The Population Refuses To Accept The Domestic Currency?
2.5. Record Keeping In The The Money Of Account
2.6. Sovereign Currency And Monetizing Real Assets
2.7. Sustainability Conditions
3. The Domestic Monetary System: Banking And Central Banking
3.1. Ious Denominated In The National Currency
3.2. Clearing And The Pyramid Of Liabilities
3.3. Central Bank Operations In Crisis: Lender Of Last Resort
3.4. Balance Sheets Of Banks, Monetary Creation By Banks, And Interbank
Settle-Ment
3.5. Exogenous Interest Rates And Quantitative Easing
3.6. The Technical Details Of Central Bank And Treasury Coordination: The
Case Of The Fed
3.7. Treasury Debt Operations
3.8. Conclusions On Fed And Treasury Roles
4. Fiscal Operations In A Nation That Issues Its Own Currency
4.1. Introductory Principles
4.2. Effects Of Sovereign Government Budget Deficits On Saving, Reserves,
And In-Terest Rates
4.3. Government Budget Deficits And The 'Two-Step' Process Of Saving
4.4. What If Foreigners Hold Government Bonds?
4.5. Currency Solvency And The Special Case Of The US Dollar
4.6. Sovereign Currency And Government Policy In The Open Economy
4.7. What About A Country That Adopts A Foreign Currency?
5. Tax Policy For Sovereign Nations
5.1. Why Do We Need Taxes? The MMT Perspective
5.2. What Are Taxes For? The MMT Approach
5.3. Taxes For Redistribution
5.4. Taxes And The Public Purpose
5.5. Tax Bads, Not Goods
5.6. Bad Taxes
6. Modern Money Theory And Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes
6.1.The Gold Standard And Fixed Exchange Rates
6.2. Floating Exchange Rates
6.3. Commodity Money Coins? Metalism Versus Nominalism, From Mesopotamia To
Rome
6.4. Commodity Money Coins? Metalism Versus Nominalism, After Rome
6.5. Exchange Rate Regimes And Sovereign Defaults
6.6. The Euro: The Set-Up Of A Nonsovereign Currency
6.7. The Crisis Of The Euro
6.8. Endgame For The Euro?
6.9. Currency Regimes And Policy Space: Conclusion
7. Monetary And Fiscal Policy For Sovereign Currencies: What Should
Government Do?
7.1. Just Because Government Can Afford To Spend Does Not Mean Government
Ought To Spend
7.2. The 'Free' Market And The Public Purpose
7.3. Functional Finance
7.4. Functional Finance Versus The Government Budget Constraint
7.5. The Debate About Debt Limits (US Case)
7.6. A Budget Stance For Economic Stability And Growth
7.7. Functional Finance And Exchange Rate Regimes
7.8. Functional Finance And Developing Nations
7.9. Exports Are A Cost, Imports Are A Benefit: A Functional Finance
Approach
8. Policy For Full Employment And Price Stability
8.1. Functional Finance And Full Employment
8.2. The JG/ELR For A Developing Nation
8.3. Program Manageability
8.4. The JG/ELR And Real World Experience
8.5. The JG And Inequality
8.6. Conclusions On Full Employment Policy
8.7. MMT For Austrians: Can A Libertarian Support The JG?
9. Inflation And Sovereign Currencies
9.1. Inflation And The Consumer Price Index
9.2. Alternative Explanations Of Hyperinflation
9.3. Real-World Hyperinflations
9.4. Conclusions On Hyperinflation
9.5. Conclusion: MMT And Policy
10. Conclusions: Modern Money Theory For Sovereign Currencies
10.1. MMT Got It Right: The Global Financial Crisis
10.2. MMT Got It Right: The Euro Crisis
10.3. Creastionism Versus Redemptionism: How A Money-Issuer Really Lends
And Spends
10.4. Growing Recognition Of The Need For A Job Guarantee
10.5. MMT And External Constraints: To Fix Or To Float, That Is The
Question
10.6. A Meme For Money
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List Of Illustrations
Preface
Box: Definitions
Introduction The Basics Of Modern Money Theory
1. The Basics Of Macroeconomic Accounting
1.1.The Basics Of Accounting For Stocks And Flows
1.2.MMT, Sectoral Balances, And Behavior
1.3. Stocks, Flows, And Balance Sheet: A Bathtub Analogy
1.4. Government Budget Deficits Are Largely Nondiscretionary: The Case Of
The Great Recession Of 2007
1.5. Accounting For Real Versus Financial
1.6. Recent US Sectoral Balances: Goldilocks And The Global Crash
2. Spending By Issuer Of Domestic Currency
2.1. What Is A Sovereign Currency?
2.2. What Backs Up Currency And Why Would Anyone Accept It?
2.3. Taxes Drive Money
2.4. What If The Population Refuses To Accept The Domestic Currency?
2.5. Record Keeping In The The Money Of Account
2.6. Sovereign Currency And Monetizing Real Assets
2.7. Sustainability Conditions
3. The Domestic Monetary System: Banking And Central Banking
3.1. Ious Denominated In The National Currency
3.2. Clearing And The Pyramid Of Liabilities
3.3. Central Bank Operations In Crisis: Lender Of Last Resort
3.4. Balance Sheets Of Banks, Monetary Creation By Banks, And Interbank
Settle-Ment
3.5. Exogenous Interest Rates And Quantitative Easing
3.6. The Technical Details Of Central Bank And Treasury Coordination: The
Case Of The Fed
3.7. Treasury Debt Operations
3.8. Conclusions On Fed And Treasury Roles
4. Fiscal Operations In A Nation That Issues Its Own Currency
4.1. Introductory Principles
4.2. Effects Of Sovereign Government Budget Deficits On Saving, Reserves,
And In-Terest Rates
4.3. Government Budget Deficits And The 'Two-Step' Process Of Saving
4.4. What If Foreigners Hold Government Bonds?
4.5. Currency Solvency And The Special Case Of The US Dollar
4.6. Sovereign Currency And Government Policy In The Open Economy
4.7. What About A Country That Adopts A Foreign Currency?
5. Tax Policy For Sovereign Nations
5.1. Why Do We Need Taxes? The MMT Perspective
5.2. What Are Taxes For? The MMT Approach
5.3. Taxes For Redistribution
5.4. Taxes And The Public Purpose
5.5. Tax Bads, Not Goods
5.6. Bad Taxes
6. Modern Money Theory And Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes
6.1.The Gold Standard And Fixed Exchange Rates
6.2. Floating Exchange Rates
6.3. Commodity Money Coins? Metalism Versus Nominalism, From Mesopotamia To
Rome
6.4. Commodity Money Coins? Metalism Versus Nominalism, After Rome
6.5. Exchange Rate Regimes And Sovereign Defaults
6.6. The Euro: The Set-Up Of A Nonsovereign Currency
6.7. The Crisis Of The Euro
6.8. Endgame For The Euro?
6.9. Currency Regimes And Policy Space: Conclusion
7. Monetary And Fiscal Policy For Sovereign Currencies: What Should
Government Do?
7.1. Just Because Government Can Afford To Spend Does Not Mean Government
Ought To Spend
7.2. The 'Free' Market And The Public Purpose
7.3. Functional Finance
7.4. Functional Finance Versus The Government Budget Constraint
7.5. The Debate About Debt Limits (US Case)
7.6. A Budget Stance For Economic Stability And Growth
7.7. Functional Finance And Exchange Rate Regimes
7.8. Functional Finance And Developing Nations
7.9. Exports Are A Cost, Imports Are A Benefit: A Functional Finance
Approach
8. Policy For Full Employment And Price Stability
8.1. Functional Finance And Full Employment
8.2. The JG/ELR For A Developing Nation
8.3. Program Manageability
8.4. The JG/ELR And Real World Experience
8.5. The JG And Inequality
8.6. Conclusions On Full Employment Policy
8.7. MMT For Austrians: Can A Libertarian Support The JG?
9. Inflation And Sovereign Currencies
9.1. Inflation And The Consumer Price Index
9.2. Alternative Explanations Of Hyperinflation
9.3. Real-World Hyperinflations
9.4. Conclusions On Hyperinflation
9.5. Conclusion: MMT And Policy
10. Conclusions: Modern Money Theory For Sovereign Currencies
10.1. MMT Got It Right: The Global Financial Crisis
10.2. MMT Got It Right: The Euro Crisis
10.3. Creastionism Versus Redemptionism: How A Money-Issuer Really Lends
And Spends
10.4. Growing Recognition Of The Need For A Job Guarantee
10.5. MMT And External Constraints: To Fix Or To Float, That Is The
Question
10.6. A Meme For Money
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Basics of Macro Accounting Spending by Issuer of Sovereign Currency Basics of the Operation of Domestic Monetary Systems Fiscal Operations Alternative Policy for Sovereign Currencies Modern Money and Macro Stabilizers What is Money? Conclusions on the Nature of Money
Contents
List Of Illustrations
Preface
Box: Definitions
Introduction The Basics Of Modern Money Theory
1. The Basics Of Macroeconomic Accounting
1.1.The Basics Of Accounting For Stocks And Flows
1.2.MMT, Sectoral Balances, And Behavior
1.3. Stocks, Flows, And Balance Sheet: A Bathtub Analogy
1.4. Government Budget Deficits Are Largely Nondiscretionary: The Case Of
The Great Recession Of 2007
1.5. Accounting For Real Versus Financial
1.6. Recent US Sectoral Balances: Goldilocks And The Global Crash
2. Spending By Issuer Of Domestic Currency
2.1. What Is A Sovereign Currency?
2.2. What Backs Up Currency And Why Would Anyone Accept It?
2.3. Taxes Drive Money
2.4. What If The Population Refuses To Accept The Domestic Currency?
2.5. Record Keeping In The The Money Of Account
2.6. Sovereign Currency And Monetizing Real Assets
2.7. Sustainability Conditions
3. The Domestic Monetary System: Banking And Central Banking
3.1. Ious Denominated In The National Currency
3.2. Clearing And The Pyramid Of Liabilities
3.3. Central Bank Operations In Crisis: Lender Of Last Resort
3.4. Balance Sheets Of Banks, Monetary Creation By Banks, And Interbank
Settle-Ment
3.5. Exogenous Interest Rates And Quantitative Easing
3.6. The Technical Details Of Central Bank And Treasury Coordination: The
Case Of The Fed
3.7. Treasury Debt Operations
3.8. Conclusions On Fed And Treasury Roles
4. Fiscal Operations In A Nation That Issues Its Own Currency
4.1. Introductory Principles
4.2. Effects Of Sovereign Government Budget Deficits On Saving, Reserves,
And In-Terest Rates
4.3. Government Budget Deficits And The 'Two-Step' Process Of Saving
4.4. What If Foreigners Hold Government Bonds?
4.5. Currency Solvency And The Special Case Of The US Dollar
4.6. Sovereign Currency And Government Policy In The Open Economy
4.7. What About A Country That Adopts A Foreign Currency?
5. Tax Policy For Sovereign Nations
5.1. Why Do We Need Taxes? The MMT Perspective
5.2. What Are Taxes For? The MMT Approach
5.3. Taxes For Redistribution
5.4. Taxes And The Public Purpose
5.5. Tax Bads, Not Goods
5.6. Bad Taxes
6. Modern Money Theory And Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes
6.1.The Gold Standard And Fixed Exchange Rates
6.2. Floating Exchange Rates
6.3. Commodity Money Coins? Metalism Versus Nominalism, From Mesopotamia To
Rome
6.4. Commodity Money Coins? Metalism Versus Nominalism, After Rome
6.5. Exchange Rate Regimes And Sovereign Defaults
6.6. The Euro: The Set-Up Of A Nonsovereign Currency
6.7. The Crisis Of The Euro
6.8. Endgame For The Euro?
6.9. Currency Regimes And Policy Space: Conclusion
7. Monetary And Fiscal Policy For Sovereign Currencies: What Should
Government Do?
7.1. Just Because Government Can Afford To Spend Does Not Mean Government
Ought To Spend
7.2. The 'Free' Market And The Public Purpose
7.3. Functional Finance
7.4. Functional Finance Versus The Government Budget Constraint
7.5. The Debate About Debt Limits (US Case)
7.6. A Budget Stance For Economic Stability And Growth
7.7. Functional Finance And Exchange Rate Regimes
7.8. Functional Finance And Developing Nations
7.9. Exports Are A Cost, Imports Are A Benefit: A Functional Finance
Approach
8. Policy For Full Employment And Price Stability
8.1. Functional Finance And Full Employment
8.2. The JG/ELR For A Developing Nation
8.3. Program Manageability
8.4. The JG/ELR And Real World Experience
8.5. The JG And Inequality
8.6. Conclusions On Full Employment Policy
8.7. MMT For Austrians: Can A Libertarian Support The JG?
9. Inflation And Sovereign Currencies
9.1. Inflation And The Consumer Price Index
9.2. Alternative Explanations Of Hyperinflation
9.3. Real-World Hyperinflations
9.4. Conclusions On Hyperinflation
9.5. Conclusion: MMT And Policy
10. Conclusions: Modern Money Theory For Sovereign Currencies
10.1. MMT Got It Right: The Global Financial Crisis
10.2. MMT Got It Right: The Euro Crisis
10.3. Creastionism Versus Redemptionism: How A Money-Issuer Really Lends
And Spends
10.4. Growing Recognition Of The Need For A Job Guarantee
10.5. MMT And External Constraints: To Fix Or To Float, That Is The
Question
10.6. A Meme For Money
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List Of Illustrations
Preface
Box: Definitions
Introduction The Basics Of Modern Money Theory
1. The Basics Of Macroeconomic Accounting
1.1.The Basics Of Accounting For Stocks And Flows
1.2.MMT, Sectoral Balances, And Behavior
1.3. Stocks, Flows, And Balance Sheet: A Bathtub Analogy
1.4. Government Budget Deficits Are Largely Nondiscretionary: The Case Of
The Great Recession Of 2007
1.5. Accounting For Real Versus Financial
1.6. Recent US Sectoral Balances: Goldilocks And The Global Crash
2. Spending By Issuer Of Domestic Currency
2.1. What Is A Sovereign Currency?
2.2. What Backs Up Currency And Why Would Anyone Accept It?
2.3. Taxes Drive Money
2.4. What If The Population Refuses To Accept The Domestic Currency?
2.5. Record Keeping In The The Money Of Account
2.6. Sovereign Currency And Monetizing Real Assets
2.7. Sustainability Conditions
3. The Domestic Monetary System: Banking And Central Banking
3.1. Ious Denominated In The National Currency
3.2. Clearing And The Pyramid Of Liabilities
3.3. Central Bank Operations In Crisis: Lender Of Last Resort
3.4. Balance Sheets Of Banks, Monetary Creation By Banks, And Interbank
Settle-Ment
3.5. Exogenous Interest Rates And Quantitative Easing
3.6. The Technical Details Of Central Bank And Treasury Coordination: The
Case Of The Fed
3.7. Treasury Debt Operations
3.8. Conclusions On Fed And Treasury Roles
4. Fiscal Operations In A Nation That Issues Its Own Currency
4.1. Introductory Principles
4.2. Effects Of Sovereign Government Budget Deficits On Saving, Reserves,
And In-Terest Rates
4.3. Government Budget Deficits And The 'Two-Step' Process Of Saving
4.4. What If Foreigners Hold Government Bonds?
4.5. Currency Solvency And The Special Case Of The US Dollar
4.6. Sovereign Currency And Government Policy In The Open Economy
4.7. What About A Country That Adopts A Foreign Currency?
5. Tax Policy For Sovereign Nations
5.1. Why Do We Need Taxes? The MMT Perspective
5.2. What Are Taxes For? The MMT Approach
5.3. Taxes For Redistribution
5.4. Taxes And The Public Purpose
5.5. Tax Bads, Not Goods
5.6. Bad Taxes
6. Modern Money Theory And Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes
6.1.The Gold Standard And Fixed Exchange Rates
6.2. Floating Exchange Rates
6.3. Commodity Money Coins? Metalism Versus Nominalism, From Mesopotamia To
Rome
6.4. Commodity Money Coins? Metalism Versus Nominalism, After Rome
6.5. Exchange Rate Regimes And Sovereign Defaults
6.6. The Euro: The Set-Up Of A Nonsovereign Currency
6.7. The Crisis Of The Euro
6.8. Endgame For The Euro?
6.9. Currency Regimes And Policy Space: Conclusion
7. Monetary And Fiscal Policy For Sovereign Currencies: What Should
Government Do?
7.1. Just Because Government Can Afford To Spend Does Not Mean Government
Ought To Spend
7.2. The 'Free' Market And The Public Purpose
7.3. Functional Finance
7.4. Functional Finance Versus The Government Budget Constraint
7.5. The Debate About Debt Limits (US Case)
7.6. A Budget Stance For Economic Stability And Growth
7.7. Functional Finance And Exchange Rate Regimes
7.8. Functional Finance And Developing Nations
7.9. Exports Are A Cost, Imports Are A Benefit: A Functional Finance
Approach
8. Policy For Full Employment And Price Stability
8.1. Functional Finance And Full Employment
8.2. The JG/ELR For A Developing Nation
8.3. Program Manageability
8.4. The JG/ELR And Real World Experience
8.5. The JG And Inequality
8.6. Conclusions On Full Employment Policy
8.7. MMT For Austrians: Can A Libertarian Support The JG?
9. Inflation And Sovereign Currencies
9.1. Inflation And The Consumer Price Index
9.2. Alternative Explanations Of Hyperinflation
9.3. Real-World Hyperinflations
9.4. Conclusions On Hyperinflation
9.5. Conclusion: MMT And Policy
10. Conclusions: Modern Money Theory For Sovereign Currencies
10.1. MMT Got It Right: The Global Financial Crisis
10.2. MMT Got It Right: The Euro Crisis
10.3. Creastionism Versus Redemptionism: How A Money-Issuer Really Lends
And Spends
10.4. Growing Recognition Of The Need For A Job Guarantee
10.5. MMT And External Constraints: To Fix Or To Float, That Is The
Question
10.6. A Meme For Money
Notes
Bibliography
Index
'This book paves the way for another revolution in macroeconomics. Building on the insights of the most important thinkers of the 20th Century, Wray shows us how an economy with modern money works and, more importantly, how it can be used to lift us to a more prosperous tomorrow.' - Stephanie Kelton, University of Missouri-Kansas City