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.
Author: Geoffrey Ingham
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 04/09/2004
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.96h x 5.96w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9780745609973
ISBN10: 074560997X
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Money & Monetary Policy
- Social Science | Research
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- 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.
Author: Geoffrey Ingham
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 04/09/2004
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.96h x 5.96w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9780745609973
ISBN10: 074560997X
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Money & Monetary Policy
- Social Science | Research
- Social Science | Sociology | General
About the Author
Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Cambridge
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