Money counts : revisiting economic calculation / edited by Mario Schmidt and Sandy Ross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schmidt, Mario, editor.

Ross, Sandy, editor.

Series:

Studies in social analysis ; Volume 10.

Studies in social analysis ; Volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money supply--Case studies.

Money supply.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, [2020]

Summary:

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 including British jewelers, blood-money payments in Germanic law codes, and the "idian use of money in cosmopolitical Moscow, a Western Kenyan village, and socialist Havana, the chapters in this volume offer new theoretical and empirical interpretations of money’s quantitative nature as it relates to abstraction, sociality, materiality, freedom, and morality.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-639-1

1-78920-686-3

OCLC:

1124353119