Nature of Money: New Directions in Political Economy

ISBN: 074560997X

Author: Ingham, Geoffrey

Condition: New

In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the social relation of money.Genuinely multidisciplinary approach, based on a thorough knowledge of theories of money in the social sciencesAn original development of the neglected heterodox theories of moneyNew histories of the origins and development of forms of money and their social relations of production in different monetary systemsA radical interpretation of capitalism as a particular type of monetary system and the first sociological outline of the institutional structure of the social production of capitalist moneyA radical critique of recent writing on global e-money, the so-called end of money, and new monetary spaces such as the euro.