Dissocier la création monétaire des prêts bancaires: retour sur la proposition « 100 % monnaie » des années 1930
Samuel Demeulemeester
Revue d'économie politique, 2022, vol. 132, issue 5, 835-859
Abstract:
The 2007-2008 global financial crisis has brought strong renewed interest in the ?100% money? reform proposal, inherited from the 1930s, which aims at divorcing money creation from bank loans by imposing 100% reserves on checking deposits. This reform idea, however, is frequently subject to confusion, being sometimes likened to the idea of abolishing bank intermediation, sometimes to that of setting up a currency board, or yet mistaken for the more recent ?narrow banking? proposal. For this reason, this article offers to clarify its concept and objectives, by revisiting the works of the authors of this proposal in the 1930s?Henry Simons, Lauchlin Currie and Irving Fisher in particular. After briefly recalling the history of the ?100% money? idea, I present its main arguments, and then discuss its implications for the payment system, bank intermediation, and the institutional framework of money issuance. I conclude on the importance of a conceptual clarification of this reform idea in respect of the ongoing discussions about it. Classification JEL: B26, E42, E59
Keywords: 100% money; money creation; Irving Fisher; Chicago Plan; narrow banking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B26 E42 E59 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:
Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cairn.info/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=REDP_325_0835 (application/pdf)
http://www.cairn.info/revue-d-economie-politique-2022-5-page-835.htm (text/html)
free
Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cai:repdal:redp_325_0835
Access Statistics for this article
More articles in Revue d'économie politique from Dalloz
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jean-Baptiste de Vathaire (operations@cairn.info).