Money and Exchange Book

	Acknowledgments	xi
1	Introduction	1
2	The first community and the equation of exchange	9
	The origin of money and the nature of exchange	10
	Making sense of Aristotle	12
	The "primitivist-modernist" controversy	14
	The exchange relation	17
	Conclusion	23
3	The sons of Adam, justice in exchange, and the medieval economy	26
	Equality and justice in exchange	28
	The "abacus manuscripts"	31
	The "Rules of Barter"	32
	Formalization of the "Rules of Barter"	36
	The "difficulties of barter" revisited	39
	"Just price" and equality of exchange revisited	41
	Conclusion	43
4	The bartering savage and the equation of exchange	46
	The inconvenience of barter and emergence of money	47
	Exchange and the meanings of "value"	50
	Solving the equation of exchange in the "rude state of society"	56
	"Civilized nations" and the solution to the equation of exchange	59
	Conclusion	62
5	Primitive communities, the equation of exchange, and proper point of departure	65
	The origin of exchange and money	66
	Aristotle and the relation of exchange	69
	The relation of exchange and exchange-value	71
	Monetary theory and history: the second point of departure	75
	Monetary theory and history: the first point of depature	79
	Conclusion	82
6	Mademoiselle Zelie and the "scientific" theory of exchange	84
	The difficulties of barter	85
	Turning economics into a "science"	89
	Jevons's "scientific" theory of exchange	93
	Walras and the "scientific" theory of exchange	97
	Buying and selling in a moneyless Walrasian world	102
	Conclusion	105
7	Neo-Walrasianism, the matrix of exchange, and beyond	108
	Realistic or unrealistic?	109
	Neo-Walrasianism and the "matrix of exchange"	112
	The "matrix of exchange" and the real economy	117
	Post-Clower matrices of exchange	121
	Conclusion	126
8	Conclusion	130
	Notes	136
	References	145
	Index	153