Money in a Human Economy

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-559-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 610 g

Reihe: The Human Economy

A human economy puts people first in emergent world society. Money is a human universal and now takes the divisive form of capitalism. This book addresses how to think about money (from Aristotle to the daily news and the sexual economy of luxury goods); its contemporary evolution (banking the unbanked and remittances in the South, cross-border investment in China, the payments industry and the politics of bitcoin); and cases from 19th century India and Southern Africa to contemporary Haiti and Argentina. Money is one idea with diverse forms. As national monopoly currencies give way to regional and global federalism, money is a key to achieving economic democracy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hart's, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: INTRODUCTION

Introduction: Money in a Human Economy

Keith Hart

Chapter 1. Capitalism and our Moment in the History of Money

Keith Hart

PART II: THINKING ABOUT MONEY

Chapter 2.Money is Good to Think: From “Wants of the Mind” to Conversation, Stories and Accounts

Jane Guyer

Chapter 3. The Shadow of Aristotle: A History of Ideas about the Origins of Money

Joseph Noko

Chapter 4.Luxury and the Sexual Economy of Capitalism

Noam Yuran

PART III: THE EVOLUTION OF MONEY TODAY

Chapter 5.The Future of Money is Shaped by the Family Practices of the Global South

Supriya Singh

Chapter 6.Remittance Securitization in the Hemisphere of the Américas: From Wall Street to Calle Principal and Back

David Pedersen

Chapter 7.Cross-border Investment in China

Horacio Ortiz

Chapter 8.Value Transfer and Rent: Or, I Didn’t Realize My Payment Was Your Annuity

Bill Maurer

Chapter 9.The politics of Bitcoin

Nigel Dodd

PART IV: MONEY IN ITS TIME AND PLACE

Chapter 10. A South Asian Mercantile Model of Exchange: Hundi During British Rule

Marina Martin

Chapter 11.Money and Markets for and Against the People: The Rise and Fall of Basotho’s Economic Independence, 1830s-1930s

Sean Maliehe

Chapter 12. Gender and Money in the Argentinian Trueque

Hadrien Saiag

Chapter 13.An Imaginary Currency: The Haitian Dollar

Federico Neiburg

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hart's, Keith
Keith Hart’s approach to the theory and practice of money combines state and market, but with people in mind, while focusing on how the communications revolution is transforming money. He is professor of anthropology emeritus at Goldsmiths London and co-directed the Human Economy Program at the University of Pretoria, 2011-2018. His books include The Memory Bank (aka Money in an Unequal World), The Hit Man’s Dilemma, The Human Economy: A Citizen’s Guide, Economic Anthropology: History, Ethnography, Critique and Economy For and Against Democracy.

Keith Hart’s approach to the theory and practice of money combines state and market, but with people in mind, while focusing on how the communications revolution is transforming money. He is professor of anthropology emeritus at Goldsmiths London and co-directed the Human Economy Program at the University of Pretoria, 2011-2018. His books include The Memory Bank (aka Money in an Unequal World), The Hit Man’s Dilemma, The Human Economy: A Citizen’s Guide, Economic Anthropology: History, Ethnography, Critique and Economy For and Against Democracy.