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Monetary Economics Primer

By: Andrea Terzi

1. Economics on two tracks

2. Giving and receiving value

3. Three means of transferring value

4. Creating, consuming, and storing value

5. Value transferred and stored in non-monetary economies

6. Contracts in a monetary economy

7. Nominal and real value: The legacies of Smith and Keynes

8. What monetary economics is about

9. A paradigm for understanding monetary economies

10. Accounting for debits and credits

11. Balance sheet and net worth

12. Income statement and net income

13. Flow of funds accounts and the net financial position

14. Giving, receiving, and the currency

15. A simple model of currency supply (Coming Soon)

16. How the private sector can save the currency (Coming Soon)

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