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What is money in a critical macro-finance framework?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Steffen Murau  and
Tobias Pforr
Steffen Murau*
Affiliation:
Boston University, USA/City, University of London, UK
Tobias Pforr
Affiliation:
University of Reading/University of Warwick, UK
*
Corresponding author: Steffen Murau, Department ofInternational Politics, City, University of London, Northampton Square, LondonEC1V 0HB, UK. Email: steffen.murau.1@city.ac.uk.
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This forum contribution explains how analyzing the creation, distribution, and destruction of contemporary credit money is placed centre stage in the emerging field of critical macro-finance. This approach not only involves traditional forms of money but also ‘shadow money’: private credit instruments which are not regulated as money from a legal standpoint, but in many respects are functionally equivalent to ‘established’ forms of money. To connect different positions in this discourse, we propose three core criteria for defining shadow money as a baseline position for future critical macro-financial research.

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Forum: Critical macro-finance
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Finance and Society , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , 2020 , pp. 56 - 66
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