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Money Counts

Revisiting Economic Calculation

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Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantative 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 quotidian use of money in cosmopolital Moscow, a Western Kenyan village, and socialist Havana, the chapters in this volume offer new theoretical and empirical interpreations of money's quantative nature as it relates to abstraction, sociality, materiality, freedom, and mor… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Schmidt, Mario (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78920-684-5
EAN: 9781789206845
Produktnummer: 32821079
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 148 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.2 cm 377 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 377

Über den Autor

Mario Schmidt is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School of the Humanities at the University of Cologne. He has published in journals including Africa, Ethnohistory, and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. His research interests include the rise of behavioral economics in East Africa, the importance of part-whole relations for an understanding of money, and the impact of concepts from the natural sciences on the development of Émile Durkheim's and Marcel Mauss's thought.