Bringing together essays by leading authors, this book explores the relationship between money and markets throughout economic theory and history, providing readers with the key to understanding important issues in monetary theory and important debates in contemporary economics.

1. Money and Markets: Introduction Part 1: Alternative Representations of Market and Monetary Relationships 2. Monetary and Social Relationships 3. Complexity Theory’s Network Conception of the Individual 4. Does Game Theory Offer 'New' Mathematical Images of Economic Reality? Part 2: History of Monetary Ideas in the Light of Modern Theory 5. Money, Markets and Property 6. Money and Market as Twin Concepts?: Some Lessons from the Recent History of Market Theory 6. The Monetary-policy Relevance of an International Settlement Institution: The Keynes Plan Sixty Years Later 8. Price and Prejudice: The Statics and Dynamics of Money-wage Flexibility Part 3: At the Origin of Monetary Ideas 9. Beyond the Quanty Theory: A Reappraisal of Jean Bodin's Monetary Ideas 10. Money as a Social Bookkeeping Device: From Mercantilism to General Equilibrium Theory 11. Death in Venice - John Law: Art Collector, Monetary Theorist and Corporate Financier 12. Paper Money: A Reassessment of Adam Smith’s View Part 4: Neglected Contributions to Monetary Theory and Policy 13. 'Incalculability' and Heterogeneity of Agents in Frederick Lavington’s Monetary Theory of Markets 14. Profit Rate, Money and Economic Dynamics in Fanno's Thought 15. Money and Usury in the Economics of Ezra Pound