Money theories: historic essays of economic and the teoretical thought (materials for lectures and seminars)
In the article, addressed to the university teachers of economics and historic economic thinking as well as to those postgraduates and students who study these sciences, almost all basic theories of monetary economy shown in diachrony are analysed. The first stage of the monetary theories is limited by the theories of Ancient East (Egypt and Mesopotamia) and Antiquity (Ancient Greece and Rome). The dispute between the supporters of nominalism and «metalism» is based on the polemic material of the middle age «school people» (F. Akvinsky, J. Buridan, N. Orezm), then follows the analyses of the ideas of the Russian representatives of nominalism and metalism. The conceptions of the modern times are presented by the ideas of mercantilists as well as the supporters of the quantitative theory of money (D. Yum and others). The money theories of the leading trends of modern economics (neoclassics, keynesianism, monetarism) are interpreted.