Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/213391 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
FMM Working Paper No. 34
Publisher: 
Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK), Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM), Düsseldorf
Abstract: 
This paper discusses the evolution of money and the monetary system. The origins of money debate is framed in terms of functionalism versus chartalism. Endogenous Schumpeterian dynamics apply to the evolution of money and monetary systems, and those dynamics are supportive of the functionalist perspective. A functionalist Schumpeterian lens shows "Gresham's law" should be relabeled "Gresham's fallacy" because good money drives out bad. The Gresham dynamic is also supportive of the functionalist perspective. Lastly, the paper shows monetary history over the past millennium does not support chartalist public finance claims as represented by modern money theory (MMT).
Subjects: 
Money
functionalism
chartalism
Gresham's law
Schumpeterian dynamics
modern monetary theory
JEL: 
E4
E44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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