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The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies
Viviana A. Zelizer
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Description for The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
A dollar is a dollar--or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing relations to cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money. Or is it? Distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author Viviana Zelizer argues against this conventional wisdom. She shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendship and family relations, and otherwise varying the process by which spending and saving takes place. Zelizer ... Read more
A dollar is a dollar--or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing relations to cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money. Or is it? Distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author Viviana Zelizer argues against this conventional wisdom. She shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendship and family relations, and otherwise varying the process by which spending and saving takes place. Zelizer ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691176031
SKU
V9780691176031
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About Viviana A. Zelizer
Viviana A. Zelizer is the Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She is the author of The Purchase of Intimacy, Pricing the Priceless Child, Economic Lives and Morals and Markets
Reviews for The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies
Winner of the 1996 Culture Section Book Award, American Sociological Association Interesting and informative... Money is a medium of exchange. But that is only the beginning.
John Kenneth Galbraith, New York Times Book Review Zelizer's book is one of the richest and most thoughtful investigations of [money's] weirdness, examining in detail how money works in the real world, ... Read more
John Kenneth Galbraith, New York Times Book Review Zelizer's book is one of the richest and most thoughtful investigations of [money's] weirdness, examining in detail how money works in the real world, ... Read more