Money Counts: Revisiting Economic Calculation (Studies in Social Analysis, 10, Band 10)

ISBN 10: 1789206847 ISBN 13: 9781789206845

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2020

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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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Mario Schmidt is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School of the Humanities at the University of Cologne. He has published in journals including Africa, Ethnohistory, and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. His research interests include the rise of behavioral economics in East Africa, the importance of part-whole relations for an understanding of money, and the impact of concepts from the natural sciences on the development of Émile Durkheim's and Marcel Mauss's thought.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1789206847
• ISBN 13: 9781789206845
• Einband: Bibliothekseinband
• Anzahl der Seiten: 148
• Herausgeber: Schmidt Mario, Ross Sandy
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