Establishing a Natural Economic Order Through Free-Land and Free-Money by Silvio Gesell : A Founder of the 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gesell, Silvio.

Contributor:

Borruso, Silvano.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interest.

Land, Nationalization of.

Money.

Local Subjects:

Interest.

Land, Nationalization of.

Money.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (652 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Establishing a Natural Economic Order Through Free-Land and Free-Money by Silvio Gesell

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gesell's thesis is that: the form of money inherited from the ancient world embodies a never solved practical contradiction between the functions of medium of exchange and the storing of value. This contradiction is at the basis of usury, and with it of all social disorders from the unemployed proletariat to war. His solution: Free Money, shorn of its function as store of value and reduced to pure medium of exchange. The last part is a general theory of interest based on Free Money, which clinches all the previous arguments. Having bared the source of the scourge of usury, Gesell furnishes abu

Contents:

Cover Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the English Translation; Preface by Karl Walker; Translator's Note; PART ONE: ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES THAT CONTROL THE DISTRIBUTION OF PROPERTY INTRODUCTION; ONE: Aim and Method; TWO: The Rights to the entire Fruits of Labour; THREE: How Ground Rent eats into the Fruits of Labour; FOUR: Freight Costs, Ground Rent and Wages; FIVE: Social Conditions, Rent and Wages; SIX: Accurately defining Free Land; SEVEN: Third Class Free Land; EIGHT: Third Class Free Land, Rent and Wages; NINE: Technical Improvements, Rent and Wages

TEN: Scientific Discoveries, Rent and WagesELEVEN: Legislation, Rent and Wages; TWELVE: Tariffs, Rent and Wages; THIRTEEN: The Fruits of Labour on Free Land as reference Point for the Entire Wage Scale, up to the highest Salaries; FOURTEEN: Interest on Capital, Rent and Wages; FIFTEEN: Overview of the Results of this Study; SIXTEEN: Rent of raw Materials and building Sites in Relation to the general Law of Wages; SEVENTEEN: First general Outline of the Law of Wages; PART TWO: FREE-LAND INTRODUCTION: Free Land, solid Guarantee of Peace; ONE: The Meaning of "Free Land"; TWO: Free Land Finances

THREE: Free Land in Real LifeFOUR: How Land Nationalization Works; FIVE: What is the Claim for Land Nationalization based on?; SIX: What Free Land Cannot Do; PART THREE: METAL AND PAPER MONEYINTRODUCTION; ONE: Money Reveals its Nature; TWO: Indispensability of Money and Public Indifference towards the Material it is made of; THREE: The So-Called Value; FOUR: Why Money can be made of Paper; FIVE: Security and Cover of Paper Money; SIX: What should the Price of Paper Money be?; SEVEN: Can the Price of Money be determined Precisely?; EIGHT: Why does Paper Money have a Price?

NINE: Factors that influence Supply and DemandTEN: The Money Supply; ELEVEN: Present-Day Laws of Money Circulation; TWELVE: Economic Crises and their Prevention; THIRTEEN: Monetary Reform; FOURTEEN: Cashless Circulation?; FIFTEEN: A Standard for the Quality of Money; SIXTEEN: Why the So-called Quantitative Theory of Money fails; SEVENTEEN: Gold and Peace?; EIGHTEEN: Is the Gold Standard Compatible with domestic and international Peace?; PART FOUR: FREE-MONEYINTRODUCTION; ONE: Free-Money; TWO: How the State issues Free Money into Circulation; THREE: Managing Free-Money

FOUR: Statistical Basis for Absolute CurrencyFIVE: Laws of Free-Money Circulation; SIX: Summary; SEVEN: Free-Money tested; PART FIVE: FREE-MONEY THEORY OF CAPITAL AND INTEREST; EIGHT: International Valuta Association; ONE: A Story of Robinson Crusoe, Touchstone of the Theory; TWO: Basic Interest; THREE: Carrying over of Usury to Merchandise; FOUR: Carrying over of Usury to So-called Physical Capital; FIVE: Completing the Free-Money Theory of Interest; SIX: Previous Attempts at explaining Interest on Capital; SEVEN: The Components of Gross Interest; EIGHT: Pure Interest a Stable Magnitude

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ISBN:

0-7734-2159-9

OCLC:

811491041