The nature of money /

Main Author: Ingham, Geoffrey K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK : Polity, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Money as a commodity and 'neutral' symbol of commodities
  • Abstract value, credit, and the state
  • Money in sociological theory
  • Fundamentals of a theory of money
  • The historical origins of money and its pre-capitalist forms
  • The development of capitalist credit-money
  • The production of capitalist credit-money
  • Monetary disorder
  • New monetary spaces
  • Concluding remarks.