Money in a human economy / edited by Keith Hart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hart, Keith, editor.

Series:

Human economy ; Volume 5.

Human Economy ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money--History.

Money.

Foreign exchange.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2017.

Summary:

A human economy puts people first in emergent world society. Money is a human universal and now takes the divisive form of capitalism. This book addresses how to think about money (from Aristotle to the daily news and the sexual economy of luxury goods); its contemporary evolution (banking the unbanked and remittances in the South, cross-border investment in China, the payments industry and the politics of bitcoin); and cases from 19th century India and Southern Africa to contemporary Haiti and Argentina. Money is one idea with diverse forms. As national monopoly currencies give way to regional and global federalism, money is a key to achieving economic democracy.

Contents:

Introduction

Capitalism and our moment in the history of money / Keith Hart

Thinking about money

Money is good to think : from "wants of the mind" to conversation, stories and accounts / Jane Guyer

The shadow of Aristotle : a history of ideas about the origins of money / Joseph Noko

Luxury and the sexual economy of capitalism / Noam Yuran

The evolution of money today

The future of money is shaped by the family practices of the global south / Supriya Singh

Remittance securitization in the hemisphere of the Americas : from Wall Street to Calle principal and back / David Pedersen

Cross-border investment in China / Horacio Ortiz

Value transfer and rent : or, I didn't realize my payment was your annuity / Bill Maurer

The politics of bitcoin / Nigel Dodd

Money in its time and place

A South Asian mercantile model of exchange : hundi during British rule / Marina Martin

Money and markets for and against the people : the rise and fall of Basotho's economic independence, 1830s-1930s / Sean Maliehe

Gender and money in the Argentinian trueque / Hadrien Saiag

Imaginary monies in Haiti / Federico Neibourg

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785335600

178533560X