TY - JOUR AU - Stützle, Ingo PY - 2015/06/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Der Gott der Waren: Die ökonomische Theorie und ihr Geld JF - PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft JA - PROKLA VL - 45 IS - 179 SE - Artikel des Heftschwerpunkts DO - 10.32387/prokla.v45i179.216 UR - https://www.prokla.de/index.php/PROKLA/article/view/216 SP - 177–198 AB - <p>Capitalism is essentially a money economy: money makes the world go round. But there’s a big ambiguity in which sense money is relevant. The confusion about money based on the comprehension of what capitalism is – irrespective of if the position is critical or a&amp;rmative. The article provide a survey of the main theories, the paradigms of political economy and their conceptualization of money: Classic/Neoclassic, Keynesian and Marxian Theory. It also discusses three relevant problem areas in money theory: inflation and the distinction of money and credit, which is important to understand the modern banking system with central bank and corporate bank.</p> ER -