Money is both a human universal and yet incredibly diverse, not one thing, but many The book combines ethnography, history, sociology and heterodox economics from multiple theoretical angles A human economy approach links people and their societies to the world; solutions to our main problems must be based on knowing what people do, think and want Although nationalism and globalization are often opposed today, the local is global and vice versa, while money and markets serve human purposes in ways that are normally hidden.
Money is both a human universal and yet incredibly diverse, not one thing, but many The book combines ethnography, history, sociology and heterodox economics from multiple theoretical angles A human economy approach links people and their societies to the world; solutions to our main problems must be based on knowing what people do, think and want Although nationalism and globalization are often opposed today, the local is global and vice versa, while money and markets serve human purposes in ways that are normally hidden.
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.
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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
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
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