Description
| Product ID: | 9781138646001 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology |
| Title: | An Anthropology of Money |
| Subtitle: | A Critical Introduction |
| Authors: | Author: Richard Robbins, Tim Di Muzio |
| Page Count: | 140 |
| Subjects: | Anthropology, Anthropology, Monetary economics, Monetary economics |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Money: A Critical Introduction shows how our present monetary system was imposed by elites and how they benefit from it. The book poses the question: how, by looking at different forms of money, can we appreciate that they have different effects? The authors demonstrate how modern money requires perpetual growth, an increase in inequality, environmental devastation, increasing commoditization, and, consequently, the perpetual consumption of evermore stuff. But these are not intrinsic features of money, but, rather, of debt money. This text shows that, through studying money in other cultures, we can have money that better serves the broader goals of society. An Anthropology of Money: A Critical Introduction shows how our present monetary system was imposed by elites and how they benefit from it. The book poses the question: how, by looking at different forms of money, can we appreciate that they have different effects? The authors demonstrate how modern money requires perpetual growth, an increase in inequality, environmental devastation, increasing commoditization, and, consequently, the perpetual consumption of ever more stuff. These are not intrinsic features of money, but, rather, of debt-money. This text shows that, through studying money in other cultures, we can have money that better serves the broader goals of society. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-03-23 |
