Description
| Product ID: | 9781789206845 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Studies in Social Analysis |
| Title: | Money Counts |
| Subtitle: | Revisiting Economic Calculation |
| Authors: | Author: Mario Schmidt, Sandy, D.D.S. Ross |
| Page Count: | 142 |
| Subjects: | Social and cultural anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Economic theory and philosophy, Economic theory & philosophy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. On the Qualities of Quantity moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money's quantity. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Publisher Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-01-16 |
