The Nature of Money

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-7456-0997-3
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 397 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ingham, Geoffrey

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.

PART I. CONCEPTS AND THEORIES.

Introduction.

1. Money as a Commodity and ‘Neural’ Symbol of Commodities.

2. Abstract Value, Credit and the State.

3. Money in Sociological Theory.

4. Fundamentals of a Theory of Money.

PART II. HISTORY AND ANALYSIS.

5. The Historical Origins of Money and its Pre-capitalist Forms.

6. The Development of Capitalist Credit-Money.

7. The Production of Capitalist Crefit-Money.

8. Monetary Disorder.

9. New Monetary Spaces.

Concluding Remarks.

Notes.

References.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Cambridge