ENGLISH

The Nature of Money

By Geoffrey Ingham

Book information

Publisher
Polity
Year
2004
ISBN
0745609961, 9780745609966
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5241644 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
264\265
Time added
2016-07-01 18:38:59

Description

In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the ‘social relation’ of money. Genuinely multidisciplinary approach, based on a thorough knowledge of theories of money in the social sciences An original development of the neglected heterodox theories of money New histories of the origins and development of forms of money and their social relations of production in different monetary systems A radical interpretation of capitalism as a particular type of monetary system and the first sociological outline of the institutional structure of the social production of capitalist money A radical critique of recent writing on global e-money, the so-called ‘end of money’, and new monetary spaces such as the euro.

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