| Titre | Étalon et moyen de paiement : la disparition de l'unité de compte dans les premiers écrits de David Ricardo (1809-1811) | |
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| Auteur | Bernard Courbis | |
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Revue | Cahiers d'économie politique |
| Numéro | no 23,printemps 1994 Monnaie et étalon chez David Ricardo | |
| Page | 43-66 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The analysis of Ricardo's first monetary writings, during the bullion controversy, leads to some conceptual critiques about the money of account. Analytically, between the notes (means of payment) and the standard metal, there is no space in these papers for the unit of account. Merged both with means of payment (coins and notes) carrying it and with the (gold) standard supposed to define it, it disappears from the conceptual field. This paper tries to find the unit of account in analysing writings that would forget its scientific interest. It shows that the ricardian approach comes up against the problem of the monetary reality of a society where we count, we express prices and contracts in a name (the pound) that transcends payment forms and is different from the standard till going without it. A normative approach of the money of account as a simple name of the metallic standard is replaced by a more positive approach of the money of account that is itself the standard of deffered payments, embodied in debts built on a trust making social consensus. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cep_0154-8344_1994_num_23_1_1155 |
