Money Counts

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Money Counts

Revisiting Economic Calculation

Sociology and anthropology Social and cultural anthropology Economic theory and philosophy

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Collection: Studies in Social Analysis

Language: English

Published by: Berghahn Books

Published on: 16th January 2020

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 1 Mb

ISBN: 9781789206869


Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantitative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. Money Counts moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money’s quantity. Drawing from case studies including British jewelers, blood-money payments in Germanic law codes, and the quotidian use of money in cosmopolitical Moscow, a Western Kenyan village, and socialist Havana, the chapters in this volume offer new theoretical and empirical interpretations of money’s quantitative nature as it relates to abstraction, sociality, materiality, freedom, and morality.

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