Ontology and Function of Money [electronic resource] : the Philosophical Fundamentals of Monetary Institutions / Leonidas Zelmanovitz.

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List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Preface; Brazil as a Monetary Laboratory; Going Beyond Economics and Becoming Philosophical; Introduction; Institutions and Progress; The Purpose of Good Money and Some Hindrances to Having It; Notes; I: Metaphysics; Chapter One: The Origin and Essence of Money; 1.1 Introduction to the Origin and Essence of Money; 1.2 Making the Historical Account Compatible; 1.3 What is the Orthodoxy?; 1.4 Setting the Premises; 1.5 Understanding What is Money for the Catallactics; 1.6 The Functionality of Money.

1.7 Arguments for Conceiving Money as a Charter1.8 Comparing the Arguments of the Two Schools; Notes; Chapter Two: Brief Account of the Intellectual History of Money, Starting with Aristotle; 2.1 Introduction to the Philosophy of Money in Aristotle; 2.2 From Aristotle to the Theory of Marginal Utility; 2.3 Contemporary Schools on the Characteristics of Money; Notes; Chapter Three: Menger, Simmel, and Mises on Money Value; 3.1 Introduction to Simmel and Mises; 3.2 Value of Money for Menger; 3.3 Mises' Theory of Money Value; 3.4 Simmel's Philosophy of Money.

3.5 Conclusion of Simmel and Mises on MoneyNotes; II: Epistemology; Chapter Four: Comte's Positivist Epistemology and Politics in a Comparative Analysis with the Austrian School of Economics; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Positivism as a School of Thought; 4.3 Henri de Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte; 4.4 Positive Epistemology; 4.5 Positive Politics; 4.6 The Austrian School of Economics; 4.7 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Five: What is it Possible to Know about Money?; 5.1 What is it Possible to Know about Money?; 5.2 The Positivist Methodology and Epistemological Assumption of Mainstream Economics.

5.3 The General Equilibrium Theory5.4 The Use of Knowledge in Society and Money; 5.5 Socialism; 5.6 Lombard Street; 5.7 Implications of the GAMOE Definition; 5.8 Monetary Disturbances; 5.9 Rational Expectations; 5.10 Subjectivism and the Understanding of Money; Notes; III: Ethics; Chapter Six: The Ethic of Money; 6.1 Introduction to the Ethics of Money; 6.2 A Possible Classification of the Schools of Thought about Money According to their Conceptions about the Source of Money's Value; 6.3 Moral Theories; 6.4 The Moral Justification of the "Fiscal Proviso."

6.5 How to Fit a Catallactic Monetary Theory into the Divide in Moral Philosophy6.6 The Dynamic Efficiency Theory; 6.7 The Theory of Dynamic Efficiency and Money; 6.8 Selected Attributes of a Proper Monetary System; 6.9 Conclusion; Notes; IV: Politics; Chapter Seven: Are There Unsurmountable Arguments for Monetary Prerogatives?; 7.1 The Problem War Finance Poses for the Integrity of Private Property Rights; 7.2 The Nature of Money and the Framework for the Debate on War Finance; 7.3 Instruments for War Finance and the Sinews of Power.

This book examines the characteristics of monetary institutions and the ways in which a clear understanding of money, and a sense of what we can know about money, can improve our comprehension on monetary policy. It establishes a link between abstract and theoretical aspects of monetary theory and the problems with money and banks we face today.