Why is there Money?

Ross M. Starr

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Abstract: The microeconomic foundation of the theory of money has long represented a puzzle to economic theory. Why is there Money? derives the foundations of monetary theory from advanced price theory in a mathematically precise family of trading post models.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
ISBN: 9781848448568
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Why is There Money?

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Ch 2 An Economy Without Money

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Ch 3 The Trading Post Model

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Ch 4 An Elementary Linear Example: Liquidity Creates Money

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Ch 5 Absence of Double Coincidence of Wants is Essential to Monetization in a Linear Economy

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Ch 6 Uniqueness of Money: Scale Economy and Network Externality

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Ch 7 Monetization of General Equilibrium

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Ch 8 Government-Issued Fiat Money

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Ch 9 Efficient Structure of Exchange

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Ch 10 Microfoundations of Jevons’s Double Coincidence Condition

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Ch 11 Commodity Money Equilibrium in a Convex Trading Post Economy

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Ch 12 Efficiency of Commodity Money Equilibrium

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Ch 13 Alternative Models

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Ch 14 Conclusion and a Research Agenda

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