Title:
Doing money : elementary monetary theory from a sociological standpoint
Author:
Ganssmann, Heiner.
ISBN:
9780415677387
9780203804469
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Physical Description:
xv, 179 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series:
Routledge international studies in money and banking ; 68
Routledge international studies in money and banking ; 68.
General Note:
Formerly CIP.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Problems and their setting -- 1.1.Capitalism -- 1.2.Money, a veil? -- 1.3.Money, a symbol? -- 1.4.Money, a language? -- 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? -- 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 -- Appendix -- A.1.Money and inequality according to econophysics -- A.2.Money and the state.
Abstract:
"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."--Publisher's website.
Electronic Access:
ebrary http://site.ebrary.com/id/10534993