Georg Simmel’s Philosophy of Money: Some Points of Relevance for Contemporary Monetary Scholarship

Speculating the Subject of Money: Georg Simmel on Human Value

This article initiates an inquiry into the sources and frameworks of value used to denote human subjects in modernity. In particular, I consider the conflation of monetary, legal, and theological registers employed to demarcate human worth. Drawing on Simmel’s speculative genealogy of the money equivalent of human values, I consider the spectrum of ascriptions from specifically quantified to in...

Intentionality, Politics, And Religion

The idea that intentionality is the distinctive mark of the mental or that only mental phenomena have intentionality emerged in the philosophical tradition after Franz Brentano. Much of contemporary philosophy is dedicated to a rejection of the view that mental phenomena have original intentionality. In other words, main strands of contemporary philosophy seek to naturalize intentionality of th...

Influences of monetary and non-monetary family resources on children's development in verbal ability in China

This paper addresses the debate over the significance of family’s monetary versus nonmonetary resources for children’s achievement and development, within the context of contemporary China. We use data from the 2010 baseline survey of the China Family Panel Study to examine the relevance of several proposed determinants in Chinese children’s cognitive achievement. Our findings suggest that: (1)...

Some Apparent Puzzles for Contemporary Monetary Policy

Intertemporal general equilibrium and monetary theory 1

The introduction of banks that issue money and supply balances and pay out their profits as dividends is the natural modification of the model of general competitive equilibrium that encompasses monetary economies. Competitive equilibria exist. Nevertheless, eventhough there is a well defined money market, competitive equilibrium allocations are indeterminate. On an event tree with N nodes, of ...