The Money Problem (Classic Reprint)

Arthur Kitson

ISBN 10: 0267793820 / ISBN 13: 9780267793822

Published by Forgotten Books, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Money Problem (Classic Reprint)
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0267793820
• ISBN 13: 9780267793822
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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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.