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Financial Crises and the Nature of Capitalist Money

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In order that my ‘threads’ do not get lost in the course of the following reflections on my colleagues’ contributions, perhaps I might start with a highly concentrated distillation of the positions that I have reached since I began my own investigation into the puzzles of the nature of money and its consequences for the operation of modern capitalism.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Macquarie University, Australia

    Jocelyn Pixley (Honorary Professor in Sociology, Senior Visiting Fellow, IRRC, Faculty of the Australian School of Business, Professorial Research Fellow) (Honorary Professor in Sociology, Senior Visiting Fellow, IRRC, Faculty of the Australian School of Business, Professorial Research Fellow)

  2. University of New South Wales, Australia

    Jocelyn Pixley (Honorary Professor in Sociology, Senior Visiting Fellow, IRRC, Faculty of the Australian School of Business, Professorial Research Fellow) & G. C. Harcourt (Visiting Professorial Fellow in the School of Economics, Faculty of the Australian School of Business, Emeritus Reader in the History of Economic Theory, Professor Emeritus) (Honorary Professor in Sociology, Senior Visiting Fellow, IRRC, Faculty of the Australian School of Business, Professorial Research Fellow) &  (Visiting Professorial Fellow in the School of Economics, Faculty of the Australian School of Business, Emeritus Reader in the History of Economic Theory, Professor Emeritus)

  3. Global Policy Institute, London Metropolitan University, UK

    Jocelyn Pixley (Honorary Professor in Sociology, Senior Visiting Fellow, IRRC, Faculty of the Australian School of Business, Professorial Research Fellow) (Honorary Professor in Sociology, Senior Visiting Fellow, IRRC, Faculty of the Australian School of Business, Professorial Research Fellow)

  4. Cambridge University, UK

    G. C. Harcourt (Visiting Professorial Fellow in the School of Economics, Faculty of the Australian School of Business, Emeritus Reader in the History of Economic Theory, Professor Emeritus) (Visiting Professorial Fellow in the School of Economics, Faculty of the Australian School of Business, Emeritus Reader in the History of Economic Theory, Professor Emeritus)

  5. University of Adelaide, Australia

    G. C. Harcourt (Visiting Professorial Fellow in the School of Economics, Faculty of the Australian School of Business, Emeritus Reader in the History of Economic Theory, Professor Emeritus) (Visiting Professorial Fellow in the School of Economics, Faculty of the Australian School of Business, Emeritus Reader in the History of Economic Theory, Professor Emeritus)

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Ingham, G. (2013). Reflections. In: Pixley, J., Harcourt, G.C. (eds) Financial Crises and the Nature of Capitalist Money. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137302953_16

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