The Social Meaning of Money : : Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies /

The Social Meaning of Money : : Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies / / Viviana A. Zelizer.

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-winn...

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Zelizer, Viviana A.,
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Dodd, Nigel.
Zelizer, Viviana A.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2017
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD TO THE 2017 EDITION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1 The Marking of Money
  • 2 The Domestic Production of Monies
  • 3 Gifted Money
  • 4 Poor People's Money
  • 5 With Strings Attached: The Earmarking of Charitable Cash
  • 6 Contested Monies
  • 7 What Does Money Mean?
  • AFTERWORD TO THE 2017 EDITION
  • REFERENCES TO THE AFTERWORD
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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