What is money? Money is any good that is widely used and accepted in transactions involving the transfer of goods and services from one person to another. Economists differentiate among three different types of money: commodity money, fiat money, and bank money. Commodity money is a good whose value serves as the value of money. Gold coins are an example of commodity money. In most countries, commodity money has been replaced with fiat money. Fiat money is a good, the value of which is less than the value it represents as money. Dollar bills are an example of fiat money because their value as slips of printed paper is less than their value as money. Bank money consists of the book credit that banks extend to their depositors. Transactions made using checks drawn on deposits held at banks involve the use of bank money.
Economics
- Introduction
- Demand, Supply, and Elasticity
- GDP, Inflation, and Unemployment
- Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
- Classical and Keynesian Theories: Output, Employment
- Money and Banking
- Fiscal and Monetary Policy
- Theory of the Consumer
- Theory of the Firm
- Perfect Competition
- Monopoly
- Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
- Labor Market
- Capital Market
- Economic Policy
- Economic Analysis
- Economics Defined
- Macroeconomics
- Microeconomics
- Equilibrium Analysis
- Elasticity
- Demand
- Supply
- GDP
- Nominal GDP, Real GDP, and Price Level
- Unemployment Rate
- Aggregate Demand (AD) Curve
- Aggregate Supply (AS) Curve
- Combining AD and AS Supply Curves
- The Classical Theory
- The Keynesian Theory
- Supply of Money
- Definition of Money
- Functions of Money
- The Demand for Money
- Fiscal Policy
- Monetary Policy
- Consumer Equilibrium
- Consumer Equilibrium Changes in Prices
- Individual Demand Market Demand
- Consumer Surplus
- Utility and Preferences
- Production Costs and Firm Profits
- Long‐Run Costs
- Production of Goods
- Long-Run Supply
- Conditions for Perfect Competition
- Demand in a Perfectly Competitive Market
- Short-Run Supply
- Monopoly in the Long-Run
- Costs of Monopoly
- Conditions for Monopoly
- Demand in a Monopolistic Market
- Profit Maximization
- Monopolistic Competition in the Long-run
- Conditions for an Oligopolistic Market
- Kinked-Demand Theory of Oligopoly
- Cartel Theory of Oligopoly
- Conditions for Monopoly
- Demand in a Monopolistic Market
- Monopolists: Profit Maximization
- Equilibrium in a Perfectly Competitive Market
- Labor Demand and Supply in a Monopsony
- Equilibrium in a Monopsony Market
- Labor Demand and Supply in a Perfectly Competitive Market
- Capital, Loanable Funds, Interest Rate
- Present Value and Investment Decisions
- Measures of Capital
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