The Money Problem (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Arthur Kitson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0267793820 ISBN 13: 9780267793822

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Rethink money from the ground up and see how a credit‑based system could change the way we buy and sell.

This overview presents a provocative view of exchange, value, and how money could work beyond gold or fixed weights. It contrasts barter with a paper system where notes express a buying power, not a specific commodity, and it asks readers to consider who controls money and how that power shapes everyday life.

• Learn how traditional money and standard of value can be challenged by treating money as a right to obtain goods and services.
• See the idea of a community bank or mutual notes that circulate as credit to facilitate exchange.
• Explore why price movements depend on more than supply and demand for goods, including the role of money itself.
• Consider a framework where all commodities are monetizable and prices stop swinging with gold.

Ideal for readers curious about economic history, money theory, and critiqued systems of finance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0267793820
• ISBN 13: 9780267793822
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 257