Abstract

Economics and the Philosophical Discourse on Money -- On Conceptual Frameworks and the Role of a Philosophical Discourse on Money -- Aristotle and the Philosophical Discourse on Money: Ethics, Politics and the Nature of Monetary Value -- Objects, Money and the Grounds of Monetary Value -- Money and the Modern Scientific Paradigm -- The Political Economists, their Critics and the Long Shadow of Aristotle -- The Traditional Paradigm of Monetary Value and the Philosophical Problems surrounding it -- Moving Beyond the Substantive Framework of Monetary Value: Voices of Discontentment -- Origin of Money: The Barter Narrative and the Credit theory of Money -- Simmel and the Myth of Objective Truths Concerning Monetary Value -- Money Is What Money Does -- The constructivist paradigm: how are we to understand monetary value? -- Substance and Relation: Two Sides of the Same Coin -- Fleshing out the multi-categorical, constructivist framework for monetary value -- Why a constructivist framework of monetary value?