ABSTRACT
The paper reviews the controversies on the neutrality/non-neutrality of money in the History of Economic Thought establishing criteria for the classification of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, especially in what concerns monetary issues. The article emphasizes the non-neutrality of money on the perspective of the Marxian monetary theory of inflation, making its point on the differences of the Monetarist theory of inflation.
KEYWORDS:
Currency; neutrality of money; non-neutrality of money; monetary orthodoxy; monetary heterodoxy