“L’Analyse Monétaire de l’Economie” - Call for papers

INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM Pierre Mendès-France University / Grenoble II, France April 15th-16th 2010
“L’Analyse Monétaire de l’Economie”
With the support of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS)
Introduction: In Marchands, salariat et capitalistes (1980), Carlo Benetti and Jean Cartelier propose a monetaryanalysis of market economies, namely, an analysis wherein money is an integral part of the economic process. As unit of account, money allows economic magnitudes to be expressed. As means of payment (expressed in terms of a unit of account), money allows the transactions involved by such magnitudes to be executed. Unit of account and means of payment are no longer some “functions” added as an afterthought, but the basic properties of any market economy. Such monetary analysis stands in sharp contrast with the usual approach in economics, wherein goods, rather than money, are seen as the point to start any economic analysis. This is the result of an (often implicit) assumption, namely, the nomenclature. Nonetheless, monetary analysis is shared by only a minority of economists, so that it remains too much unexplored. At the same time, the specific contribution of Marchands, salariat et capitalistes to monetary analysis has not yet been discussed thoroughly, thirty years after its publication. This colloquium aims at examining monetary analysis in general, while being interested in Marchands, salariat et capitalistes in particular.
The colloquium will take place at Pierre Mendès-France University / Grenoble II (France), on April15th-16th 2010. 20 minute-length papers will be followed by a 10 minute-length comment, then by a discussion. A round-table with Carlo Benetti and Jean Cartelier, attending the colloquium, is also planned. Conference language is French. Interventions in English and Spanish are also allowed.
Publication Selected papers will be published within an economic review.
Please send an abstract (500 words) to: remi.stellian@fernuni.ch
DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: OCTOBER 15th 2009

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