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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
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Bandelj, Nina, editor.
Wherry, Frederick F., editor.
Zelizer, Viviana A. Rotman, editor.
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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