Viviana A. Zelizer

The Social Meaning of Money

Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A dollar is a dollar--or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing relations to cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money. Or is it? Distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author Viviana Zelizer argues against this convent

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Revised ed
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9780691176031
• ISBN-10: 0691176035
• Artikelnr.: 46969525

Autorenporträt

Viviana A. Zelizer With a foreword by Nigel Dodd and With a new afterword by the author

Rezensionen

"Viviana Zelizer has written an interesting and informative book showing that there is much more to the meaning of money than . . . economic theory and its formidable equations ever imply. Money is a medium of exchange. But that is only the beginning."--John Kenneth Galbraith, The New York Times Book Review