Money Counts : : Revisiting Economic Calculation / / ed. by Sandy Ross, Mario Schmidt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Dodd, Nigel,; Echterhölter, Anna,; Fotta, Martin,; Holbraad, Martin,; Koskinen, Ville,; Oakley, Peter,; Ross, Sandy,; Schmidt, Mario,; Seitz, Emanuel,
• HerausgeberIn: Ross, Sandy,; Schmidt, Mario,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Social Analysis ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (142 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: The Quality of Quantity: Monetary Amounts and Their Materialities --; Chapter 1 Is Gold Jewelry Money? --; Chapter 2 Injury and Measurement: Jacob Grimm on Blood Money and Concrete Quantification --; Chapter 3 Five Thousand, 5,000, and Five Thousands: Disentangling Ruble Quantities and Qualities --; Chapter 4 Money Is Life” Quantity, Social Freedom, and Combinatory Practices in Western Kenya --; Chapter 5 Money and the Morality of Commensuration: Currencies of Poverty in Post-Soviet Cuba --; Chapter 6 Money on the Street’ as a Hoard: How Informal Moneylenders Remain Unbanked --; Chapter 7 What Is Money? A Definition beyond Materiality and Quantity --; Afterword --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789206869; 9783110997699
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789206869?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Sandy Ross, Mario Schmidt.

Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantitative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. Money Counts moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money’s quantity. Drawing from case studies including British jewelers, blood-money payments in Germanic law codes, and the "idian use of money in cosmopolitical Moscow, a Western Kenyan village, and socialist Havana, the chapters in this volume offer new theoretical and empirical interpretations of money’s quantitative nature as it relates to abstraction, sociality, materiality, freedom, and morality.