Economics, Anthropology and the Origin of Money as a Bargaining Counter

ISBN-13: 9781032322278 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 336 str.

Patrick Spread

Opis

This book argues that money originated as a bargaining counter in a system of money-bargaining, emerging almost seamlessly from barter-bargaining. This book will be of great interest to researchers in the history and origins of money, banking and economic theory more broadly.

Spis treści

Introduction   Introduction to Support-Bargaining and Money-Bargaining   Chapter 1: Support, Support-Bargaining and Social Debt   Chapter 2: Support, Violence, Homer, Malinowski   Chapter 3: Support and the Organisation of Faith   Chapter 4: Intellectual Support-Bargaining and Frames of Reference   Chapter 5: Polanyi, Gifts and Markets   Chapter 6: Words, Maths and Money   Chapter 7: Barter, Credit and Money   Chapter 8: Graeber, Smith and Capitalism   Chapter 9: State Money and Corporate Budgets   Chapter 10: Knapp, Keynes and the State Theory of Money   Chapter 11: Coins and Greek Feasts   Chapter 12: Conclusion: Money as a Bargaining Counter

O autorze

Patrick Spread graduated from Trinity College, Oxford, UK and received a PhD from the London Business School. This is his ninth book based on the theory of support-bargaining and money-bargaining. In his career he has mixed theoretical research with work as an economic adviser and consultant to governments and economic development agencies.