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Money in a Human Economy
Keith Hart (Ed.)
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Description for Money in a Human Economy
Hardback. Money in a Human Economy offers multiple perspectives on capital's central role in the formation of world society, as well as in the shaping of its current discontents. Editor(s): Hart, Keith. Series: The Human Economy. Num Pages: 326 pages. BIC Classification: KCB; KCK; KCS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Alongside existent debates between state and market theories of money, this volume explores people's struggles and potential to make money to suit themselves, spanning local case studies and emergent world economies to construct a framework of the 'human economy'. Contributors to this volume attempt to think about money as a category of thought, offer theories on luxury and sex in capitalist development, and follow the evolution of money today from the role of the global South in shaping its future, to cross-border investment in China, to Bitcoin as politics. Money in a Human Economy offers multiple perspectives on capital's central ... Read more
Alongside existent debates between state and market theories of money, this volume explores people's struggles and potential to make money to suit themselves, spanning local case studies and emergent world economies to construct a framework of the 'human economy'. Contributors to this volume attempt to think about money as a category of thought, offer theories on luxury and sex in capitalist development, and follow the evolution of money today from the role of the global South in shaping its future, to cross-border investment in China, to Bitcoin as politics. Money in a Human Economy offers multiple perspectives on capital's central ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
The Human Economy
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785335594
SKU
V9781785335594
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Ref
99-15
About Keith Hart (Ed.)
Keith Hart has taught and researched at a score of universities around the world (East Anglia, Manchester, Yale, Michigan, McGill, Chicago, Northwestern, University of West Indies, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Goldsmiths, LSE, Pavia, Oslo, Stellenbosch, Witwatersrand, Kwazulu Natal, Pretoria). He is co-editor of The Human Economy series with Berghahn Books, as well as author and editor of 14 books/single works and well ... Read more
Reviews for Money in a Human Economy
Hart's human economy paradigm is changing the terms of debate in economic anthropology. This volume, which contains essays by the world's leading experts on new ways of thinking about money, explores fundamental questions about the human condition in today's unequal world. - Chris Gregory, Australian National University