TY - JOUR
T1 - Legal history of money
AU - Kreitner, Roy
PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - The legal history of money is not a well-defined field with a canon and an accepted set of questions and conflicts. This review muses about the possible reasons for the late development of the field and then reviews three areas of scholarship in which a legal history of money is emerging: international political economy, studies of banking and central banking, and the constitutional approach to money. The constitutional approach brings together the best insights from the other two approaches and thematizes the mutual constitution of political and economic categories through money. The review closes by suggesting that the future of the legal history of money lies in development of the constitutional approach.
AB - The legal history of money is not a well-defined field with a canon and an accepted set of questions and conflicts. This review muses about the possible reasons for the late development of the field and then reviews three areas of scholarship in which a legal history of money is emerging: international political economy, studies of banking and central banking, and the constitutional approach to money. The constitutional approach brings together the best insights from the other two approaches and thematizes the mutual constitution of political and economic categories through money. The review closes by suggesting that the future of the legal history of money lies in development of the constitutional approach.
KW - Political economy
KW - banking
KW - constitutional approach
KW - currency
KW - monetary theory
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U2 - 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102811-173902
DO - 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102811-173902
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AN - SCOPUS:84873324137
SN - 1550-3585
VL - 8
SP - 415
EP - 431
JO - Annual Review of Law and Social Science
JF - Annual Review of Law and Social Science
ER -