The social life of money / Nigel Dodd.
Dodd, Nigel, 1965- author.
2014
HG221 .D63 2014 (Mapit)
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Title The social life of money / Nigel Dodd.
Author Dodd, Nigel, 1965- author.
ISBN 9780691141428 hardcover alkaline paper
0691141428 hardcover alkaline paper
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Language English
Description ix, 444 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number HG221 .D63 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 332.4
Summary Overview: Questions 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 post crisis 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 "claim upon society" 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Origins:
Barter
Tribute
Quantification
Mana
Language
Violence
Conclusion
Capital:
Contradictions of money
Credit money
Finance capital
Primitive accumulation
When credit fails
Behind the veil
Seeing double
Conclusion
Debt:
Debt's untold story
Credit and nothing but credit
Neochartalism
Schumpeter's banks
Minsky's half-century
Strange money
Austerity myths
Conclusion
Guilt:
Ubermensch and eternal return
Capitalism, debt, and religion
Filthy lucre
Conclusion
Waste:
Money, excretion, and heterogeneous matter
Derrida's ghosts
Cool money, living money
Conclusion
Territory:
Westfailure
Nomisma
Deterriorialization
Empire
Euroland
Conclusion
Culture:
Money and cultural alienation
Polyanyi and the problem of embeddedness
Relational monies
Scales of value
Quality theory of money
Repersonalizing impersonal money
Conclusion
Utopia:
Simmel's perfect money
Fromm's humanistic utopia
Giving time for time
Rotting money
Proudhon's bank
Vires in numeris
Toward a monetary commons
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.

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