Money: 5,000 Years of Debt and Power - Hardcover

Aglietta, Michel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786634414 ISBN 13: 9781786634412

Verlag: Verso Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Founder of the influential heterodox regulation school offers a new theory of money, tracing it's history back 1,000 years

This book's goal is to understand money in all its complexity. As a link between the individual and the collective, over time money transmits sovereign power to the economy, by way of its grip on finance and thus on the debt system. But liquidity is also the object around which everyone's desires are polarised. Keeping a hold over this ambivalence demands the construction - and continual bolstering - of confidence. For from the destruction of this confidence come the crises that resurrect the absolute desire for liquidity, paralysing activity.

Money is embedded in our societies, and we can only understand it by way of a multi-disciplinary approach that mobilises the tools of anthropology, history and political economy. This book covers five thousand years of history in order to grasp the unity of money as a phenomenon and its relationship with sovereignty, by way of the combined transformations of both political orders and monetary systems.

Basing ourselves on these foundations we can understand the distinct eras of the regulation of money and the crises that have traversed capitalism, up to the transformations of our own time.

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Michel Aglietta is Emeritus Professor at the Université Paris-Ouest, where he is a scholarly advisor to the CEPII and France Stratégie.

Pepita Ould Ahmed is an economist at the Institutde recherche pour le développement (IRD) and member of the CESSMA at the Université Paris&;Diderot.

Jean-François Ponsot is a lecturer at the Centre de recherche en économie de Grenoble at the Université Grenoble-Alpes.

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• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1786634414
• ISBN 13: 9781786634412
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
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