Readings on money
A range of sources, historical to current, slanting toward MMT.
William Stanley Jevons, Money and the Mechanism of Exchange, 1873 https://archive.org/details/cu31924013816172 (Classical/marginalist view, articulates properties and functions of money, still largely accepted.)
A. Mitchell Innes, "What Is Money?" The Banking Law Journal, May 1913. https://www.community-exchange.org/docs/what%20is%20money.htm (Proto-MMT)
Frederick Soddy, The Role of Money, 1934. https://archive.org/details/roleofmoney032861mbp (Heterodox and widely dismissed at the time, many principles now accepted.)
John Maynard Keynes The general theory of employment, interest, and money, 1936 https://www.worldcat.org/title/general-theory-of-employment-interest-and-money/oclc/1006314129 (Established macroeconomics.)
Milton Friedman; Anna Jacobson Schwartz, A monetary history of the United States 1867-1960 (2 vols), 1963. https://www.worldcat.org/title/monetary-history-of-the-united-states-1867-1960-vol-1/oclc/181133482 https://www.worldcat.org/title/monetary-history-of-the-united-states-1867-1960-a-study-by-the-national-bureau-of-economic-research-new-york/oclc/181134713 (A rebuttal of Keynes.)
Randall L. Wray, Money, 2010 http://www.levyinstitute.org/files/download.php?file=wp_647.pdf&pubid=1344 (MMT)
Warren Mosler, ME/MMT: The Currency as a Public Monopoly, 2014. http://www00.unibg.it/dati/corsi/910003/64338-Warren%20Mosler%20Bergamo%20paper%20March%2010.pdf (MMT)
David Graeber, Debt : the first 5,000 years, 2014 https://www.worldcat.org/title/debt-the-first-5000-years/oclc/927102673 (An anthropological approach.)
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