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Money Counts

Revisiting Economic Calculation

Herausgeber: Schmidt, Mario; Ross, Sandy

Beschreibung

Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. On the Qualities of Quantity moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money's quantity.

Autor

Mario Schmidt is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School of the Humanities at the University of Cologne. He has published in journals including Africa, Ethnohistory, and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. His research interests include the rise of behavioral economics in East Africa, the importance of part-whole relations for an understanding of money, and the impact of concepts from the natural sciences on the development of Émile Durkheim's and Marcel Mauss's thought.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Social Analysis
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 228g
• ISBN-13: 9781789206852
• ISBN-10: 1789206855
• Artikelnr.: 58038665