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Mary Mellor explores the potential of money as an agent of socially just and ecologically sustainable development. Through an analysis of theories of money it shows how existing money systems work and how radical reform of the mechanisms of money issue and circulation could be achieved.
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Mellor, M. Money as a Public Resource for Development. Development 55, 45–53 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2011.107
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