money

A Dictionary of Economics;      463 words ......intrinsic value is below their face value; fiat money is money whose value derives from a decision...general. See also broad money , call money , cheap money , dear money , fiat money , flight from money , high-powered money , inside money...

Famous myths of "fiat money".

Journal of Money, Credit & Banking;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......its own. It is what economists call fiat money. This is an object that has no intrinsic...economists do not claim that their fiat money concept is fictional. On the contrary...and Zhu (2004) explain, using the fiat money concept (even when money was gold...

MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL ANYBODY EVER THINKS ABOUT PREACHERS, TEACHERS AND...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  December 11, 1996 ;     637 words ...Everything is about money. Alan Greenspan makes a speech about money. ``People making money awfully fast,'' Greenspan says. ``Making money maybe a little too fast,'' says Greenspan. Money markets, wondering what Greenspan just might possibly do to...

Hidden secrets are revealed by our perception of money

Scotland on Sunday;  July 5, 1998 ;     700+ words ...WITH money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome...hillside I am reading The Real Meaning Of Money (HarperCollins GBP 7.99) by psychologist...Rowe, each of us has our own idea of what money means and this depends on our personal reality...

MONEY makes money

The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs;      124 words ...MONEY makes money 1572 T. Wilson Discourse upon Usury 54 V Mony getteth money. a 1654 J. Selden Table-Talk (1689) 57 'Tis a vain thing to say, Money begets not Money; for that no doubt it does. 1776 A. Smith Wealth of Nations I. i . ix. Money, says...

SME: a new measurement of the U.S. money supply. (supply of medium of...

Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business;  March 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ......In summary, any excess supply of fiat money does not go out of existence, but...analysis leads to the conclusion that fiat money, uniquely among all commodities produced...process by which the nominal stock of fiat money is determined. If the stock of a...

Money Talks, but What Is It Saying? Semiotics of Money and Social Control.

Journal of Economic Issues;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Money is one of the most enigmatic institutions of any economic...Greece to modern cashless monetary societies. In proportion to money's centrality in capitalism, theorists have studied its nature...ongoing project has brought us closer to an understanding of money's economic roles, despite a seeming ...

Resolving differences over the optimal quantity of money. (economic...

Journal of Money, Credit & Banking;  November 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ......agents calls for a deflation of the fiat money stock at a rate that equates the rates of return of fiat money and capital. This prescription for...rule) optimality of a fixed stock of fiat money.(1) This model has often been criticized...

Money, Power and Space

Economic Geography;  April 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Money, Power and Space. Edited by S. Corbridge, N. Thrift, and...ranging and impressive book is an enormously tall order. Money, Power and Space comprises 17 major chapters exploring different aspects of the relationships among money, power, and space. The list of contributors, from a range...

Money Inventories in Search Equilibrium.

Journal of Money, Credit & Banking;  May 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......SEARCH-THEORETIC MODEL of fiat money with indivisible money and indivisible real commodities...for money while agents with money holdings above this bound...distributions of a given quantity of money that differ in their levels...consequently, a redistribution of money affects ...

Money and middlemen in an economy with private information

Economic Inquiry;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......trades can give rise to a role of fiat money as a medium of exchange. Rubinstein...Wright [1994] study the function of fiat money in ameliorating the trading friction...Wright [1994] generally recognizable fiat money can increase welfare in an economy...

I don't care too much for money

The Independent - London;  November 20, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Money makes the world go round. And people, too, like hamsters in treadmills. William Bloom knows this, so he has organised this workshop for our times. Mr Bloom, author of Money, Heart and Mind ("a holistic approach to money"), is going to help us deal with having too much of it, too little of it . . . and ...

On ensuring the acceptability of a new fiat money. (problems with...

Journal of Money, Credit & Banking;  November 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......successful introduction of a new fiat money, involving not the mere re-denomination...the successful launching of a new fiat money (that is, one lacking any nonmonetary...the case of intrinsically useless fiat money, but which is true of metallic and...

You; Going for Broke; Overspenders, Hoarders & Achieving Money Harmony

The Washington Post;  June 12, 1990 ;     700+ words ...It's only money. Although nearly everyone utters that well-worn phrase from time to time, the fact is that money almost never is "only money." That's because for most of us, money represents a lot more than...

A World of Money; From Bartering to Beads and Bucks

The Washington Post;  July 4, 2000 ;     700+ words ...MONEY IS FUNNY. Those coins and bills in your pocket aren't worth...something to blow your nose with. And yet, offer people enough money and they'll do almost anything you ask or give you almost...have. Why is that? It's because when everybody agrees that money is valuable, it is. We think of money ...