Money Counts: Revisiting Economic Calculation (Studies in Social Analysis #10)

Money Counts: Revisiting Economic Calculation (Studies in Social Analysis #10)

Mario Schmidt (Editor), Sandy Ross (Editor)
$29.95
Publication Date: January 16th, 2020
Publisher:
Berghahn Books
ISBN:
9781789206852
Pages:
142

Description

Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. Money Counts moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money's quantity. Drawing from case studies including British jewelers, blood money payments in Germanic law codes, and the quotidian use of money in cosmopolital Moscow, a Western Kenyan village, and socialist Havana, the chapters in this volume offer new theoretical and empirical interpreations of money's quantative nature as it relates to abstraction, sociality, materiality, freedom, and morality.

About the Author

Sandy Ross has been a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, and a Sociology Fellow at the Higher School of Economics. With Chris Swader, she is editing a forthcoming issue on post-socialist moral economies for the Journal of Consumer Culture, and her newest book, Weapons of the Geek: Moral Economies in the 21st Century, will be published in 2020 by Palgrave.

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