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Where Does Money Come From?

Authors:
Tony Greenham, Josh Ryan-Collins, Richard Werner, Andrew Jackson

Entry type:
Report

Year of publication:
2012

Publishers:
New Economics Foundation

Language:
English

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Key findings, according to the NEF: > There is widespread misunderstanding of how new money is created: even among bankers, economists, and policymakers > Physical cash accounts for less than 3 per cent of the total stock of money in the economy > The absence of this understanding makes attempts at banking reform more likely to fail

Below you find the introduction of the publication.