Gustav Peebles

The Euro and Its Rivals

Currency and the Construction of a Transnational City

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Produktbeschreibung

The Euro and Its Rivals provides a deep historical study of the welfare state and the monetary policies and utopian visions that helped to ground it, at the same time shedding new light on the contemporary movement of goods, people, credit, and debt.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9780253223203
• ISBN-10: 0253223202
• Artikelnr.: 32727949

Autorenporträt

Gustav Peebles is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Social Sciences in the Bachelor's Program at The New School in New York City. His work has appeared in Harper's Magazine and other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
1. Imagining Utopia, Constructing Øresund: From the Nation-State to the
Region
2. The Arts of 'Scientific' Money: Monetary Policy as Moral Policy
3. Receipts and Deceits: Currency Regulation, Black Markets and Borders
4. The Mark of Money: Regulating the Flow of Subjects
5. Indebted Communities
Notes
Bibliography
Index