An Anthropology of Money

A Critical Introduction

Tim Di Muzio, Richard Robbins (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

150 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-64598-1 (ISBN)

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An Anthropology of Money: A Critical Introduction shows how our present monetary system was imposed by elites and how they benefit from it. The book poses the question: how, by looking at different forms of money, can we appreciate that they have different effects? The authors demonstrate how modern money requires perpetual growth, an increase in inequality, environmental devastation, increasing commoditization, and, consequently, the perpetual consumption of ever more stuff. These are not intrinsic features of money, but, rather, of debt-money. This text shows that, through studying money in other cultures, we can have money that better serves the broader goals of society.

Tim Di Muzio is Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry at the University of Wollongong. Richard H. Robbins is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Anthropology at SUNY at Plattsburgh.

1. Introduction: A Cultural and Historical Approach to Money

2. A Historical and Cross-Cultural View of Money

3: Modern Money: Origins and Consequences

4. Alternative Currencies: From Ithaca Hours to Bitcoins

5. Summary and Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	12.07.2017
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
Zusatzinfo	9 Tables, black and white; 13 Line drawings, black and white; 18 Halftones, black and white; 31 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-64598-2 / 1138645982
ISBN-13	978-1-138-64598-1 / 9781138645981
Zustand	Neuware