What Money Wants: An Economy of Desire
Noam Yuran
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Description for What Money Wants: An Economy of Desire
Hardback. Based on the works of Marx, Veblen and Weber, and in stark contrast to mainstream economics, this book presents a view of money as an object of desire. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: KCBM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 658.
One thing all mainstream economists agree upon is that money has nothing whatsoever to do with desire. This strange blindness of the profession to what is otherwise considered to be a basic feature of economic life serves as the starting point for this provocative new theory of money. Through the works of Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, and Max Weber, What Money Wants argues that money is first and foremost an object of desire. In contrast to the common notion that money is but an ordinary object that people believe to be money, this book explores the theoretical consequences of the ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804785921
SKU
V9780804785921
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99-50
About Noam Yuran
Noam Yuran is a lecturer at the College of Academic Management Studies in Israel and a research fellow at the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University.
Reviews for What Money Wants: An Economy of Desire
"After a theoretical exposition founded chiefly on Marx in the first chapter, the book offers brilliant analyses ranging as far and wide as Dickens' Hard Times, classical and modern economics, communications theory and reality TV, advertising and brand theory, and finally original readings in Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure ... Read more