Axel T. Paul

Money and Society

A Critical Companion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An introduction to the sociology of money, foregrounding how money embodies social relations

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Produktdetails

• IIPPE
• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 135mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 196g
• ISBN-13: 9780745341965
• ISBN-10: 0745341969
• Artikelnr.: 59549729

Autorenporträt

Axel T. Paul is a leading expert on the sociology of money, having worked within the discipline for twenty years. He is Professor of Sociology at the University Basel, Switzerland. He has written extensively on the topics of economic sociology, historical sociology and the sociology of violence.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Economic Theories of Money - and Their Critiques
1.1. Barter, Exchange and Money
1.2. Objective versus Subjective Theories of Value
1.3. The Improbability of Exchange
2. Money's Unlikely Origins
2.1. Gift-exchange and ceremonial monies
2.2. Money and (the End of) Violence
2.3. Economies of Sacrifice
2.4. Secrets of the Coin
3. Money and Finance
3.1. Time and Money
3.2. The Logic of Financial Markets
4. The Politics of Money
4.1. The Foundations and Fundamental Problems of Contemporary Money
4.2. Private Monies (or Bitcoin)
4.3. Sovereign Money
4.4. Central Bank Independence and the Inescapable Politicality of Money
5. Money and Society
5.1. Alienation and Freedom
5.2. Money and Functional Differentiation
References
Index