Ingham The Nature of Money

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-3803-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglectedtraditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the'social relation' of money.
* Genuinely multidisciplinary approach, based on a thoroughknowledge of theories of money in the social sciences
* An original development of the neglected heterodox theories ofmoney
* New histories of the origins and development of forms of moneyand their social relations of production in different monetarysystems
* A radical interpretation of capitalism as a particular type ofmonetary system and the first sociological outline of theinstitutional structure of the social production of capitalistmoney
* A radical critique of recent writing on global e-money, theso-called 'end of money', and new monetary spaces suchas the euro.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ingham, Geoffrey

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
PART I. CONCEPTS AND THEORIES.
Introduction.
1. Money as a Commodity and 'Neural' Symbol ofCommodities.
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-capitalistForms.
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