Heiner Ganssmann

Doing Money

Elementary Monetary Theory from a Sociological Standpoint

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780415677387
• ISBN-10: 0415677386
• Artikelnr.: 33381524

Autorenporträt

Heiner Ganßmann was professor in the Department of Sociology of the Freie Universität Berlin until 2009, specializing in economic sociology, social policy and sociological theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Introduction Part 1: Problems and their Settings 1.1 Capitalism
1.2 Money: A veil? 1.3 Money: A Symbol? 1.4 Money: A Language? Part 2:
Clarifications 2.1 Language and Money 2.2 Everyday Use of Money 2.3 Prices
and the Metric of Money 2.4 Money as Things vs. Money as Pure Information
2.5 Money as a Social Relation? Part 3: Elementary Theory 3.1 Contingency
and Interaction 3.2 Origins and Acceptability of Money 3.3 Quantitative
Price Determination 3.4 Money and Uncertainty Absorption 3.5 Credit 3.6
Money, Credit and Crises. Conclusion