Money Talks : : Explaining How Money Really Works /

Money Talks : : Explaining How Money Really Works / / ed. by Frederick F. Wherry, Nina Bandelj, Viviana A. Zelizer.

The world of money is being transformed as households and organizations face changing economies, and new currencies and payment systems like Bitcoin and Apple Pay gain ground. What is money, and how do we make sense of it? Money Talks is the first book to offer a wide range of alternative and unexpe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Almeling, Rene,
Bandelj, Nina,
Boston, Tyler,
Carruthers, Bruce G.,
Desan, Christine,
Dodd, Nigel,
Elyachar, Julia,
Grewal, David Singh,
Guseva, Alya,
Helleiner, Eric,
Hochschild, Arlie,
Kim, Julie,
Maurer, Bill,
McBride, Michael,
Morduch, Jonathan,
Polillo, Simone,
Rona-Tas, Akos,
Singh, Supriya,
Tufail, Zaibu,
Weatherall, James Owen,
Wherry, Frederick F.,
Zelizer, Viviana A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Bandelj, Nina,
Wherry, Frederick F.,
Zelizer, Viviana A.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 2 halftones. 1 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Advancing Money Talks
  • Part I. Beyond Fungibility
  • 1. Economics and the Social Meaning of Money
  • 2. Morals and Emotions of Money
  • 3. How Relational Accounting Matters
  • PART II. Beyond Special Monies
  • 4. The Social Meaning of Credit, Value, and Finance
  • 5. From Industrial Money to Generalized Capitalization
  • PART III. Creating Money
  • 6. The Constitutional Approach to Money
  • 7. The Market Mirage
  • 8. The Macro- Social Meaning of Money
  • PART IV. Contested Money
  • 9. Money and Emotion
  • 10. Paid to Donate Egg Donors, Sperm Donors, and Gendered Experiences of Bodily Commodification
  • 11. Money and Family Relationships
  • PART V. Money Futures
  • 12. Money Talks, Plastic Money Tattles
  • 13. Blockchains Are a Diamond's Best Friend
  • 14. Utopian Monies
  • Selected References on the Social Scientific Study of Money
  • Contributor Biographies
  • Index

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