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Money talks : explaining how money really works / edited by Nina Bandelj, Frederick F. Wherry & Viviana A. Zelizer.
LIBRA HG221 .M66 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Money.
- Money--Social aspects.
- Money--Political aspects.
- Economics--Sociological aspects.
- Economics.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 269 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Part I. Beyond fungibility
- Economics and the social meaning of money
- Morals and emotions of money
- How relational accounting matters
- Part II. Beyond special monies
- The social meaning of credit, value, and finance
- From industrial money to generalized capitalization
- Part III. Creating money
- The constitutional approach to money: monetary design and the production of the modern world
- The market mirage
- The macro-social meaning of money: from territorial currencies to global money
- Part IV. Contested money
- Money and emotion: win-win bargains, win-lose contexts, and the emotional labor of commercial surrogates
- Paid to donate: egg donors, sperm donors, and gendered experiences of bodily commodifications
- Money and family relationships: the biography of transnational money
- Part V. Money futures
- Money talks, plastic money tattles: the new sociability of money
- Blockchains are a diamond's best friend: Zelizer for the Bitcoin moment
- Utopian monies: complementary currencies, Bitcoin, and the social life of money.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691168687
- 9780691168685
- OCLC:
- 985402462
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