Beschreibung:
In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglectedtraditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the'social relation' of money.* Genuinely multidisciplinary approach, based on a thoroughknowledge of theories of money in the social sciences* An original development of the neglected heterodox theories ofmoney* New histories of the origins and development of forms of moneyand their social relations of production in different monetarysystems* A radical interpretation of capitalism as a particular type ofmonetary system and the first sociological outline of theinstitutional structure of the social production of capitalistmoney* A radical critique of recent writing on global e-money, theso-called 'end of money', and new monetary spaces suchas the euro.
Preface.PART I. CONCEPTS AND THEORIES.Introduction.1. Money as a Commodity and 'Neural' Symbol ofCommodities.2. Abstract Value, Credit and the State.3. Money in Sociological Theory.4. Fundamentals of a Theory of Money.PART II. HISTORY AND ANALYSIS.5. The Historical Origins of Money and its Pre-capitalistForms.6. The Development of Capitalist Credit-Money.7. The Production of Capitalist Crefit-Money.8. Monetary Disorder.9. New Monetary Spaces.Concluding Remarks.Notes.References.Index.