Money in a Human Economy /

Money in a Human Economy / / ed. by Keith Hart’s.

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A human economy puts people first in emergent world society. Money is a human universal and now takes the divisive form of capitalism. This book addresses how to think about money (from Aristotle to the daily news and the sexual economy of luxury goods); its contemporary evolution (banking the unban...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Dodd, Nigel,
Guyer, Jane,
Hart, Keith,
Maliehe, Sean,
Martin, Marina,
Maurer, Bill,
Neiburg, Federico,
Noko, Joseph,
Ortiz, Horacio,
Pedersen, David,
Saiag, Hadrien,
Singh, Supriya,
Yuran, Noam,
HerausgeberIn:
Hart’s, Keith,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:The Human Economy ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (314 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Part I. Introduction
  • Introduction. Money in a Human Economy
  • Chapter 1. Capitalism and Our Moment in the History of Money
  • Part II. Thinking About Money
  • Chapter 2. Money is Good to Think: From “Wants of the Mind” to Conversation, Stories, and Accounts
  • Chapter 3. The Shadow of Aristotle: A History of Ideas about the Origins of Money
  • Chapter 4. Luxury and the Sexual Economy of Capitalism
  • Part III. The Evolution of Money Today
  • Chapter 5. The Future of Money is Shaped by the Family Practices of the Global South
  • Chapter 6. Remittance Securitization in the Hemisphere of the Américas: From Wall Street to Calle Principal and Back
  • Chapter 7. Cross-Border Investment in China
  • Chapter 8. Value Transfer and Rent: Or, I Didn’t Realize My Payment Was Your Annuity
  • Chapter 9. Bitcoin as Politics
  • Part IV. Money in Its Time and Place
  • Chapter 10. A South Asian Mercantile Model of Exchange: Hundi during British Rule
  • Chapter 11. Money and Markets For and Against the People: The Rise and Fall of Basotho’s Economic Independence, 1830s–1930s
  • Chapter 12. Gender and Money in the Argentinian Trueque
  • Chapter 13. An Imaginary Currency: The Haitian Dollar
  • Index

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