1st Edition
Doing Money Elementary Monetary Theory from a Sociological Standpoint
By Heiner Ganßmann
Copyright 2012
200 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
200 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book puts in place the groundwork for an alternative theory of money in a sociological perspective, proceeding by way of a critique of existing theories.
Preface. Introduction Part 1: Problems and their Settings 1.1 Capitalism 1.2 Money: A veil? 1.3 Money: A Symbol? 1.4 Money: A Language? Part 2: Clarifications 2.1 Language and Money 2.2 Everyday Use of Money 2.3 Prices and the Metric of Money 2.4 Money as Things vs. Money as Pure Information 2.5 Money as a Social Relation? Part 3: Elementary Theory 3.1 Contingency and Interaction 3.2 Origins and Acceptability of Money 3.3 Quantitative Price Determination 3.4 Money and Uncertainty Absorption 3.5 Credit 3.6 Money, Credit and Crises. Conclusion
Biography
Heiner Ganßmann was professor in the Department of Sociology of the Freie Universität Berlin until 2009, specializing in economic sociology, social policy and sociological theory.
