Over the last few years, we have witnessed an upsurge of enthusiasm about cryptocurrencies and, more generally, the so-called blockchain technology. In this new and updated edition, the authors explore what exactly these new technologies entail and promise. They argue that to un…
Over the last few years, we have witnessed an upsurge of enthusiasm about cryptocurrencies and, more generally, the so-called blockchain technology. In this new and updated edition, the authors explore what exactly these new technologies entail and promise. They argue that to un…
This book provides an exhaustive and even-handed review of the existing literature on exchange rate determination, along with a raft of fresh insights. The author provides a unique marriage of academic precision with an investors practical experience to deliver a rigorous yet in…
This book provides an exhaustive and even-handed review of the existing literature on exchange rate determination, along with a raft of fresh insights. The author provides a unique marriage of academic precision with an investors practical experience to deliver a rigorous yet in…
This book explores China⁰́₉s currency wars with its trading partners in four Western newsmagazines: Time, The Economist, L⁰́₉Express, and Der Spiegel. Based on both quantitative and qualitative approaches, the interdisciplinary approach adopted in the research draws on two analyti…
Alongside existent debates between state and market theories of money, this volume explores people's struggles and potential to make money to suit themselves, spanning local case studies and emergent world economies to construct a framework of the 'human economy'. Contributors t…
Alongside existent debates between state and market theories of money, this volume explores people's struggles and potential to make money to suit themselves, spanning local case studies and emergent world economies to construct a framework of the 'human economy'. Contributors t…
Introduction -- Capitalism and our moment in the history of money / Keith Hart -- Thinking about money -- Money is good to think : from "wants of the mind" to conversation, stories and accounts / Jane Guyer -- The shadow of Aristotle : a history of ideas about the origins of mon…
Alongside existent debates between state and market theories of money, this volume explores people's struggles and potential to make money to suit themselves, spanning local case studies and emergent world economies to construct a framework of the 'human economy'. Contributors t…
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 evoluti…
