Chapter 1. Introduction to the English Edition.- Chapter 2. The Violence of Money (excerpt).- Chapter 3. Enhancing the Political Economy of Money through History.- Chapter 4. Collective Introduction to La Monnaie souveraine.- Chapter 5. The Monetary Order of Market Economies.- chapter 6. Universality of the Monetary Phenomenon and Plurality of Moneys.- Chapter 7. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Money as Cultural Capital and a Total Social Fact.- Chapter 8. Money: Instrument of Exchange or Social Institution of Value.

This book gathers several important texts and offers a general overview of the institutionalist approach to money developed in France since the 1980s.These texts highlight the specificities of the French monetary approaches and display their main contributions to the understanding of monetary phenomena - not just in our developed market economies, but also in other societies. By bringing these works to an English-speaking audience for the first time, this book provides a much needed and valuable direct insight to these rich texts, and contributes to related approaches such as post-Keynesian economics and neo-chartalist approaches to money. This book highlights the need for a global vision of money and a clearer link between money and political spheres. It will appeal to students and researchers across various disciplines including but not limited to economics, anthropology, sociology, history and philosophy. Pierre Alary is Associate Professor of economics at Lille University, France and member of the research centre CLERSE.Jérôme Blanc is Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Lyon, France and member of the research centre Triangle.Ludovic Desmedt is Professor of Economics at the University of Burgundy, Dijon, France and member of the research centre LEDiBruno Théret is Senior Research Scholar Emeritus at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and member of the research centre IRISSO. 

Theorizes on money within the role of our society Presents contributions from economics, anthropology, sociology, history and philosophy to enable a multidisciplinary understanding of money Provides a credible alternative to mainstream instrumental approaches to money