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Money in a human economy /

A human economy puts people first in emergent world society. Money is a human universal and now takes the divisive form of capitalism. This book addresses how to think about money (from Aristotle to the daily news and the sexual economy of luxury goods); its contemporary evolution (banking the unban...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hart, Keith (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
Colección:Human economy ; v. 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Capitalism and our moment in the history of money / Keith Hart
  • 2. Money is good to think : from "wants of the mind" to conversation, stories and accounts / Jane Guyer
  • 3. The shadow of Aristotle : a history of ideas about the origins of money / Joseph Noko
  • 4. Luxury and the sexual economy of capitalism / Noam Yuran
  • 5. The future of money is shaped by the family practices of the global south / Supriya Singh
  • 6. Remittance securitization in the hemisphere of the Americas : from Wall Street to Calle principal and back / David Pedersen
  • 7. Cross-border investment in China / Horacio Ortiz
  • 8. Value transfer and rent : or, I didn't realize my payment was your annuity / Bill Maurer
  • 9. Bitcoin as politics / Nigel Dodd
  • 10. A South Asian mercantile model of exchange : hundi during British rule / Marina Martin
  • 11. Money and markets for and against the people : the rise and fall of Basotho's economic independence, 1830s-1930s / Sean Maliehe
  • 12. Gender and money in the Argentinian trueque / Hadrien Saiag
  • 13. An imaginary currency : the Haitian dollar / Federico Neibourg
  • Index.