Geoffrey Ingham (University of Cambridge)

The Nature of Money

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the 'social relation' of money.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9780745609973
• ISBN-10: 074560997X
• Artikelnr.: 14846054

Autorenporträt

Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Cambridge

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.
PART I. CONCEPTS AND THEORIES.

Introduction.

1. Money as a Commodity and 'Neural' Symbol of Commodities.

2. Abstract Value, Credit and the State.

3. Money in Sociological Theory.

4. Fundamentals of a Theory of Money.

PART II. HISTORY AND ANALYSIS.

5. The Historical Origins of Money and its Pre-capitalist Forms.

6. The Development of Capitalist Credit-Money.

7. The Production of Capitalist Crefit-Money.

8. Monetary Disorder.

9. New Monetary Spaces.

Concluding Remarks.

Notes.

References.

Index.

Rezensionen

"This excellent book reveals a sounder grasp of credit-money than many contemporary heterodox economists and almost all orthodox monetarist economists."
OpenDemocracy