Money Counts
Download or Read eBook Money Counts PDF written by Mario Schmidt and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Mario Schmidt |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 147 |
| Release | : 2020-01-16 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781789206869 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1789206863 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Money Counts by : Mario Schmidt
Book excerpt: 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 quotidian 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.
