This book puts in place the groundwork for an alternative theory of money in a sociological perspective, proceeding by way of a critique of existing theories.
This book puts in place the groundwork for an alternative theory of money in a sociological perspective, proceeding by way of a critique of existin...
Everybody uses money every day, but we rarely stop to think about how money works. In this book, scholars from different disciplines seek to answer that question; from historians to economists, sociologists, a philosopher and a physicist. Money works as a social construction because we have mutual expectations that support its use - despite the seeming irrationality of trading valuable things or doing strenuous work for pieces of paper or numbers in accounts. Recently, there has been a revival of interest in monetary theory, not least because the impacts of globalizing markets and of new...
Everybody uses money every day, but we rarely stop to think about how money works. In this book, scholars from different disciplines seek to answer th...
This book puts in place the groundwork for an alternative theory of money in a sociological perspective, proceeding by way of a critique of existing theories.
This book puts in place the groundwork for an alternative theory of money in a sociological perspective, proceeding by way of a critique of existing t...