Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- What is money? Introduction JOHN SMITHIN -- 'Babylonian madness': on the historical and sociological origins of money GEOFFREY INGHAM -- Modern money L.RANDALL WRAY -- The property theory of interest and money GUNNAR HEINSOHN AND OTTO STEIGER -- The credit theory of money: the monetary circuit approach ALAIN PARGUEZ AND MARIO SECCARECCIA -- Money and effective demand VICTORIA CHICK -- The invisible hand and the evolution of the monetary system KEVIN DOWD -- Aristotle on money SCOTT MEIKLE -- A Marxist theory of commodity money revisited STEVE FLEETWOOD -- A Marxist account of the relationship between commodity money and symbolic money in the context of contemporary capitalist development PETER KENNEDY -- Menger's theory of money: some experimental evidence PETER G.KLEIN AND GEORGE SELGIN -- Dr Freud and Mr Keynes on money and capitalism GILLES DOSTALER AND BERNARD MARIS -- The disappearance of Keynes's nascent theory of banking between the Treatise and the General Theory COLIN ROGERS AND T.K.RYMES -- Index.