The Power of Money : How Ideas about Money Shaped the Modern World / Robert Pringle.
Pringle, Robert, 1939-
2019
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Title The Power of Money : How Ideas about Money Shaped the Modern World / Robert Pringle.
Author Pringle, Robert, 1939-
ISBN 9783030258948 (electronic book)
3030258947 (electronic book)
9783030258931
Imprint Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (297 pages)
Call Number Q162
Dewey Decimal Classification 332.09
Summary Innovation in money is just as important as innovation in any other sphere of activity; money is always a "work in progress." In fact, history shows societies have tried out a wide diversity of monetary arrangements. Ideas about money have played key roles at crucial turning points in world history and during national histories. Recently, a new global money space has been created, a joint venture between the public and private sector. This book explores the new money society that has grown up to inhabit this new space. The book has several aims: Firstly, the book shows how beliefs about money, as well as attitudes and values towards it, have varied between societies and over time, and specifically how they have changed over the modern era. Secondly, the book shows the powerful effects that changing ideas have had on events, including wars and revolutions, recessions, booms and financial crises. Thirdly, the book recounts the creation of a global money space, dated to the last quarter of the 20th century, and explores its features. Fourthly, the book describes some characteristics of the new money society that inhabits the global money space. Fifthly, the book shows how each society, and indeed successive generations of the same society, has made its own unique arrangements to govern money - i.e. how it comes to terms with the power of money. The author argues that we need to develop a new arrangement now and suggests that we have much to learn from recent creative work in a number of fields ranging from the sociology of money to contemporary art. This approach sheds new light on a number of controversial issues, including the rise of crony capitalism, growing social divisions, currency wars, and asset price bubbles.-- Provided by publisher.
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1. Introduction
2. European money and culture before 1914
3. The 1920s: Lessons from Weimar
4. The Jazz Age: America in the 1920s
5. The money-haters: experiments in socialism
6. Europe between the world wars: a ferment of ideas
7. How Europe's culture kept money under control (1940s and 1950s)
8. New money from the New World
9. American culture and the dollar after World War II
10. The century's hinge (mid 1960s to late 1970s)
11. 1980-2000: Creation of a global money space
12. The global money culture
an outline
13. Money Delusion and the crash, 2000-2010
14. Money as a tool of the state
15. The euro: the biggest money project
16. Crony and criminal capitalism since 2010
17. Global money: Insiders and Outsiders
18. The jealous state and the future of money
19. The new sociology of money
20. Money and the decline of classical liberalism
21. What can we learn from Japanese culture
22. Contemporary art: towards new ways of 'seeing' money
23. The money we deserve.

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