Social Life of Money (eBook)

Nigel Dodd (Autor)

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2016
464 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8086-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Nigel Dodd is professor of sociology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of The Sociology of Money and Social Theory and Modernity.

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A reevaluation of what money is-and what it might beQuestions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it, there are more forms and systems of money, from local currencies and social lending to mobile money and Bitcoin. Yet our understanding of what money is-and what it might be-hasn't kept pace. In The Social Life of Money, Nigel Dodd, one of today's leading sociologists of money, reformulates the theory of the subject for a postcrisis world in which new kinds of money are proliferating.What counts as legitimate action by central banks that issue currency and set policy? What underpins the right of nongovernmental actors to create new currencies? And how might new forms of money surpass or subvert government-sanctioned currencies? To answer such questions, The Social Life of Money takes a fresh and wide-ranging look at modern theories of money.One of the book's central concerns is how money can be wrested from the domination and mismanagement of banks and governments and restored to its fundamental position as the "e;claim upon society"e; described by Georg Simmel. But rather than advancing yet another critique of the state-based monetary system, The Social Life of Money draws out the utopian aspects of money and the ways in which its transformation could in turn transform society, politics, and economics. The book also identifies the contributions of thinkers who have not previously been thought of as monetary theorists-including Nietzsche, Benjamin, Bataille, Deleuze and Guattari, Baudrillard, Derrida, and Hardt and Negri. The result provides new ways of thinking about money that seek not only to understand it but to change it.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.2.2016
• Vorwort: Nigel Dodd
• Zusatzinfo: 1 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: A Treatise on Money • Austerity • Bank • Banknote • Bankocracy • bank run • Bankruptcy • Bitcoin • Bourgeoisie • Calculation • Capital control • Capitalism • Cash Flow • Cash value • Central Bank • Commercial Bank • Commodity • Commodity Fetishism • Commodity Money • consumer • Credit (finance) • Credit Money • Creditor • credit risk • Currency • Currency basket • Currency competition • currency war • debt • Debtor • Deflation • Demand for money • dichotomy • Dystopia • Economic anthropology • Economic bubble • economic democracy • economic interventionism • economic liberalism • Economic Life • Economic Policy • economic problem • economic recovery • Economics • Economic Sociology • Economic statistics • economy • Economy and society • Employment • Eurozone • Exchange Rate • exchange value • Fee Income • Fiat Money • fictitious capital • Finance • Finance capitalism • Financial asset • Financial Capital • Financial Crisis • Financial institution • Financial Instrument • Financial Intermediary • financialization • Financial ratio • Financial Services • Financial Times • Gift Economy • Globalization • Governance • Government bond • Government Debt • Hedge Fund • income • Inflation • Infrastructure • Inside money • Institution • insurance • Interest • Investor • Jacques Derrida • Jean Baudrillard • Keynesian Economics • Law of Value • Leverage (finance) • libidinal economy • local currency • Market Economy • market liquidity • Market power • Marxism • Medium of exchange • Modernity • Modern Monetary Theory • Monetarism • Monetary base • Monetary circuit theory • monetary policy • Monetary Reform • monetary system • Monetary Theory • MONEY • money market • Money market fund • Moneyness • Money Supply • Moral Economy • Morality • Multitude • Mutualism (economic theory) • nation state • Neoliberalism • occupy movement • Overaccumulation • Payment • Payment System • Political Economy • Politics • Ponzi scheme • Price gouging • price mechanism • price system • Public Finance • purchasing power • Quantitative Easing • Quantity • Quantity theory of money • Recession • Redistribution of income and wealth • saving • Slavery • Social Contract • Social Cost • social currency • Social Economy • social relation • Sociology • sovereign default • Speculation • spendthrift • state capitalism • Structured investment vehicle • Supply (economics) • Tax • Theft • the future of money • Theory of value (economics) • The Philosophy of Money • Unemployment • use value • usury • Valuation (finance) • Value (economics) • Velocity of money • Wealth • Wealth Management • welfare • World Economy • Writing • Your Money
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8086-6 / 1400880866
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8086-7 / 9781400880867