Understanding Money: Philosophical Frameworks of Monetary Value

ISBN-13: 9780367202354 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 138 str.

Aditya Nain; P. G. Jung

Opis

This book offers a novel understanding of money distinct from the dominant lens of economics through which it is usually observed. In contrast to the economic frameworks of ‘money', the volume examines philosophical discourses on money through conceptual frameworks that explain how monetary value manifests in various empirical monetary systems.

Spis treści

1. Economics and the Philosophical Discourse on Money 2. On Conceptual Frameworks and the Role of a Philosophical Discourse on Money 3. Aristotle and the Philosophical Discourse on Money: Ethics, Politics and the Nature of Monetary Value 4. Objects, Money and the Grounds of Monetary Value 5. Money and the Modern Scientific Paradigm 6. The Political Economists, their Critics and the Long Shadow of Aristotle 7. The Traditional Paradigm of Monetary Value and the Philosophical Problems surrounding it 8. Moving Beyond the Substantive Framework of Monetary Value: Voices of Discontentment 9. Origin of Money: The Barter Narrative and the Credit theory of Money 10. Simmel and the Myth of Objective Truths Concerning Monetary Value 11. Money Is What Money Does 12. The constructivist paradigm: how are we to understand monetary value? 13. Substance and Relation: Two Sides of the Same Coin 14. Fleshing out the multi-categorical, constructivist framework for monetary value 15. Why a constructivist framework of monetary value?