This major Handbook consists of 29 contributions that explore the full range of exciting and interesting work on money and finance currently taking place within heterodox economics. There are many themes and facets of alternative monetary and financial economics but two major ones can be identified.

<i> The Eurosystem and the Art of Central Banking </i> (by Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger) - ABSTRACT: The Eurosystem is the fifth decentralized system in the history of central banks. It consists of the European Central Bank (ECB) and twelve National Central Banks (NCBs) forming the European...

During a distinguished career, Basil Moore has made numerous important contributions to macroeconomics and monetary economics, and is renowned as the progenitor of the ‘horizontalist’ analysis of endogenous money. More recently, he has embraced complexity theory as part of an...

During a distinguished career, Basil Moore has made numerous important contributions to macroeconomics and monetary economics, and is renowned as the progenitor of the ‘horizontalist’ analysis of endogenous money. More recently, he has embraced complexity theory as part of an...

1. Possession and ownership : use of goods versus economic activity -- 2. The blindness of the great schools of economics towards ownership -- 3. The economic core of the ownership system : interest, money and property assets -- 4. The market as the result of the ownership-based economy -- 5....