Download or read book Monetary Economics written by W. Godley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the mainstream paradigm, based on the inter-temporal optimisation of welfare by individual agents. It introduces a methodology for studying how it is institutions which create flows of income, expenditure and production together with stocks of assets and liabilities, thereby determining how whole economies evolve through time.