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100	1		_aHutchinson, Frances, _d1941-
245	1	4	_aThe politics of money : _btowards sustainability and economic democracy / _cFrances Hutchinson, Mary Mellor and Wendy Olsen.
260			_aLondon ; _aSterling, Va. : _bPluto, _c2002.
300			_aviii, 248 p. : _bill. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 230-241) and index.
505	0		_a1. The money society : Money and society -- Globalisation and finance -- The limits of money -- Money and economics -- Vogon economic theory -- Wider solutions for specific problems -- Mapping a way forward -- Outline of the book. 2. Why is there no alternative? : Economics as normal science -- Classical and neo-classical schools of economic thought -- Basic assumptions of orthodox economics -- The abstraction of economic systems -- The role of money in the circular flow -- The elimination of time in the circular flow model -- Capital's non-existence in the circular flow -- Alternatives and variants -- The flawed logic of orthodox approaches -- The problem of growth -- Chrematistics or oikonomics? Production or provisioning? -- There is an alternative. 3. Money, banking and credit: Money in history -- Does money have a natural value? Origins of banking and credit -- John Law and banking as money creation -- The evolution of the debt-based money economy -- Money as debt/credit -- Credit and the velocity of money -- How banks multiply money -- Fractional reserve banking -- The evolution of the money creation process. 4. Capitalism - the elimination of alternatives: Characteristics of capitalism -- Property as enclosure -- Enclosing knowledge and skills -- The capitalist market -- Marx, money and value -- The political construction of the capitalist market -- Enforcing the free market on a global scale -- Challenging the market. 5. Marx, Veblen and the critique of the money/market system: Marx's legacy -- Thorstein Veblen's institutional perspective -- Class, work and waged labour -- Work as transformation. 6. Guild socialism and social credit: From labourism to social credit -- The origins of social credit -- Douglas and social credit -- The Draft Mining Scheme -- The case for socialisation of credit -- Douglas' A+B theorem and the flawed circular flow model. 7. Institutional critiques of capitalist finance: The credit basis of capitalism -- The headquarters of the capitalist system -- National dividend -- Reclaiming the common cultural inheritance -- The utility of work versus the disutility of labour -- Personal income and the utility of labour -- Sufficiency and economic democracy. 8. New critiques: green economics and feminist economics: Ecology and economics -- Environmental or ecological economics? -- Ecology and food provisioning: from soil cultivation to soil mining -- Socially responsible finance -- Women and economics: the marginalisation of women -- Rethinking the economy. 9. New ways of thinking about money and income: Local currency and exchange systems -- Local money -- Mutual credit systems -- LETS schemes -- Basic (or citizen's) income -- Producer banks - the example of Mondragon -- Sufficiency and financial independence -- Jubilee 2000 -- Micro-credit -- Linking practice with theory. 10. Towards sustainability and economic democracy: Money as a social phenomenon -- Monetary reform -- From waged labour to social credit -- Sufficiency and subsistence -- The good ship TINA -- A new vision.
650		0	_aMonetary policy.
650		0	_aCapitalism.
650		0	_aMoney.
700	1		_aMellor, Mary.
700	1		_aOlsen, Wendy Kay.
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