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The Social Life of Money
Nigel Dodd
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Description for The Social Life of Money
Hardback. Num Pages: 456 pages, 1 line illus. BIC Classification: JHB; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 160 x 34. Weight in Grams: 776.
Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it, there are more forms and systems of money, from local currencies and social lending to mobile money and Bitcoin. Yet our understanding of what money is--and what it might be--hasn't kept pace. In The Social Life of Money, Nigel Dodd, one of today's leading sociologists of money, reformulates the theory of the subject for a postcrisis world in which new kinds of money are proliferating. What counts as legitimate action by central banks ... Read more
Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it, there are more forms and systems of money, from local currencies and social lending to mobile money and Bitcoin. Yet our understanding of what money is--and what it might be--hasn't kept pace. In The Social Life of Money, Nigel Dodd, one of today's leading sociologists of money, reformulates the theory of the subject for a postcrisis world in which new kinds of money are proliferating. What counts as legitimate action by central banks ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691141428
SKU
V9780691141428
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About Nigel Dodd
Nigel Dodd is professor of sociology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of The Sociology of Money and Social Theory and Modernity.
Reviews for The Social Life of Money
"An exhaustive analysis of money as a complex social process
not a thing
that will appeal to scholars in many fields."
Kirkus Reviews "Dodd presents a wide-ranging and sophisticated review and integration of the academic work related to alternative conceptions of modern money... [T]his is a richly rewarding book. Those of us accustomed to thinking of money as something we exchange for beer ... Read more
not a thing
that will appeal to scholars in many fields."
Kirkus Reviews "Dodd presents a wide-ranging and sophisticated review and integration of the academic work related to alternative conceptions of modern money... [T]his is a richly rewarding book. Those of us accustomed to thinking of money as something we exchange for beer ... Read more