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When is Finance Bloated and Dysfunctional?
Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik, 2016
What is money and how is it used? After answering these questions, Dirk Bezemer analyses how finance can be dysfunctional for the real economy in an exciting approach. He distinguishes between categories of credit for the finance and property sector and credit for the real sector.