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Monetary Turning Point: From Bank Money to Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) 2023 ed. [Hardback]

  • Format: Hardback, 192 pages, height x width: 210x148 mm, weight: 402 g, 1 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 192 p. 1 illus., 1 Hardback
  • Pub. Date: 18-Feb-2023
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • ISBN-10: 3031239563
  • ISBN-13: 9783031239564
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  • Format: Hardback, 192 pages, height x width: 210x148 mm, weight: 402 g, 1 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 192 p. 1 illus., 1 Hardback
  • Pub. Date: 18-Feb-2023
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • ISBN-10: 3031239563
  • ISBN-13: 9783031239564
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The monetary system is at a turning point. The question is no longer if, but how soon countries will roll out a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). This book discusses the recomposition of the money supply from the present bank money regime to a monetary system determined by CBDC. As the book sets out, the future of money is going to be digital and sovereign. Nonetheless, the relationship between the various types of money is competitive rather than being the peaceful coexistence that was officially envisaged. CBDC competes with the incumbent bank money as well as with private cryptocurrencies that are challenging both central-bank money as well as bank money. For technological and political reasons, bank money will not be able to emulate the superior properties of sovereign digital tokens. Uncovered and unwarranted cryptocurrencies, too, will not stand the competition in the long run. The shifts in the monetary system are changing the role of central banks in the interplay of monetary, fiscal and private-creditary functions and open up improved options for monetary policy. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers, and policymakers in monetary and financial economics, and digital currencies.

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The book consists of eight chapters and covers a great deal of ground . The Monetary Turning Point is one of the first book-length treatments to approach this issue from a systemic point of view and one of the first whose approach accords with post-Keynesian and financialization theory sensibilities. As Huber notes though, currently central banks are being cautious. Reading Huber's book may help you have your say. (Jamie Morgan, real-world economics review, Issue 107, 2024)

1 Core Points for Introduction
1(8)
2 Three-Tier Monetary System. Types of Money, Their Creation and Circulation
9(24)
2.1 Three-Tier Taxonomy of Money
9(1)
2.2 Base Level: Central-Bank Money
9(6)
2.3 Second Tier: Active and Deactivated Bank Money
15(4)
2.4 Third Tier: New Money Surrogates (Money Market Fund Shares, E-money, Stablecoins, Complementary Currencies)
19(9)
2.5 Base-Level Challengers: Uncovered and Unwarranted Cryptocurrencies and Complementary Currencies
28(5)
References
30(3)
3 Dominant Money. The Bank Money Regime
33(22)
3.1 Dominant Currency and Dominant Money
33(2)
3.2 Bank Money as Dominant Money. Substantial Loss of Monetary Control
35(5)
3.3 Monetary Credit and Intermediary Credit. Payment Processing and Financial Intermediation
40(3)
3.4 The Hemispheres of Finance: GDP Finance and Non-GDP Finance. Consumer Price Inflation and Asset Inflation
43(5)
3.5 Recurrent Financial Market Failure
48(7)
References
50(5)
4 Monetary Sovereignty. Bank Money as Para-Sovereign Fiat Money
55(8)
References
60(3)
5 Historical Turning Points in the Composition of the Money Supply
63(14)
5.1 Types of Money in Epochal Rise and Decline
63(2)
5.2 1660s Until 1840s: Rising Tide of Unregulated Paper Money, Incipient Decline in the Systemic Importance of Sovereign Coin
65(3)
5.3 1840s Until Around 1910: Rising Tide of National Central-Bank Notes, Ebb Tide for Unregulated Paper Money
68(2)
5.4 Late Nineteenth Century Until Around 2010: Rising Tide of Bank Money, Ebb Tide for Central-Bank Notes and Reserves
70(3)
5.5 Upcoming from the 2020s: Rising Tide of Digital Tokens, in Particular CBDC
73(4)
References
74(3)
6 Today's Recomposition of the Money Supply
77(40)
6.1 The Future of Money is Digital
77(8)
6.2 The Prospects of the Various Types of Money at a Glance
85(2)
6.3 CBDC Begins Its Ascent
87(6)
6.4 The Age of Bank Money Has Passed Its Peak
93(6)
6.5 What Will Be of Central-Bank Reserves?
99(1)
6.6 Cash---On Its Way to the Money Museum
100(2)
6.7 The Outlook for Unbacked Cryptocurrencies
102(4)
6.8 Stablecoins as Competitors to Be Taken Seriously
106(11)
References
110(7)
7 CBDC System Design Principles
117(34)
7.1 What System Architecture for CBDC?
118(2)
7.2 Objectives Pursued and Benefits Expected
120(4)
7.3 Disintermediation, Substitution and the Competitive Coexistence of CBDC and Bank Money
124(2)
7.4 Implications for CBDC Design Principles
126(8)
7.5 Bank Run---A Problem of Bank Money, Not of CBDC. Further Implications for CBDC Design Principles
134(4)
7.6 Putting CBDC into Circulation
138(3)
7.7 Coverage for Stablecoins and Other Third-Tier Money Surrogates
141(10)
References
146(5)
8 Central Banks and Monetary Policy Under Conditions of CBDC
151(38)
8.1 Objectives of Monetary Policy. To Be or Not to Be in Control of Money Creation, Inflation, Interest Rates, Growth and Employment
151(7)
8.2 Independence of Central Banks---Both from the Government as Well as Banking and Finance
158(7)
8.3 Reference Variables and Instruments of Responsive Monetary Policies
165(3)
8.4 Monetary Financing, Neutralisation of National Debt, Helicopter Money
168(6)
8.5 Problems of Monetary Accounting
174(5)
8.6 Beyond the False Identity of Money and Credit
179(10)
References
185(4)
Index 189
Joseph Huber is Professor Emeritus of Economic Sociology at Martin Luther University, Halle Wittenberg, Germany. He is a pioneer of what is now known as green ethical banking and is one of the founders of ecological modernization theory. He has written extensively on monetary policy and reform topics, is a longstanding policy advisor on matters of economic and ecological modernization and is actively involved in the international movement for monetary reform.