Description
A dollar is a dollar--or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing relations to cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money. Or is it? Distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author Viviana Zelizer argues against this conventional wisdom. She shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendship and family relations, and otherwise varying the process by which spending and saving takes place. Zelizer concentrates on domestic transactions, bestowals of gifts and charitable donations in order to show how individuals, families, governments, and businesses have all prescribed social meaning to money in ways previously unimagined.
Author: Viviana A. Zelizer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 05/09/2017
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780691176031
ISBN10: 0691176035
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Money & Monetary Policy
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- Business & Economics | Economics | General
About the Author
Viviana A. Zelizer is the Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She is the author of The Purchase of Intimacy, Pricing the Priceless Child, Economic Lives and Morals and Markets