Marx on money /
by Suzanne de Brunhoff ; translated by Maurice J. Goldbloom ; pref. by Duncan K. Foley.
- New York : Urizen Books, 1976.
- 139 pages ; 23 cm.
Translation of La monnaie chez Marx, second edition.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-139).
Part One The Marxist Theory of Money --- A. A 'General' Theory of Money --- B. A 'Complete' Theory of Money -- a. Money, Measure of value -- b. Money, Medium of Circulation -- c. Money, Instrument of Hoarding - I. Hoarding - 2. Money as 'Means of Payment' and 'Universal Money' - Money and Social Power Part Two Money and Capitalism --- I. The financing of capitalist production -- A. Money and the capital cycle -- B. Money and the reproduction of the social product - a. The Circulation of surplus value - b. The financial requirements for equilibrium --- II. Credit: structure and cycle -- A. The structures of credit - a. A Monetary Theory of Credit - 1. Marx's Method - 2. "Credit Money" - A Unitary concept of credit - 1. Unity of capital markets and of the rate of interest - 2. Introduction of the financial circuits -- B. Credit and business cycle - a. The financial cycle - b. The crisis and the credit system - c. Banking policy and money power.
"This little book is a guide to Marx's views on money. It is a a point of access to ideas that have been much neglected in twentieth-century debates on monetary theory and policy, but provide... valuable and plausible scientific alternatives to the views that have dominated these debates" - Prefeace