Money Counts : : Revisiting Economic Calculation / / 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 i...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Social Analysis ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (142 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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