The author offers an anthropological approach to the topic of the gift, focusing on its effects on social bonds and community. The central idea of this volume is that gifting and marketplace exchange are incommensurable; that the latter, which involves money and contracts, has i…
The central thesis of the book is that in order to evaluate monetary policy, one should have a clear idea about the characteristics and functions of money as it evolved and in its current form. That is to say that without an understanding about how money evolved as a social inst…
This book examines the characteristics of monetary institutions and the ways in which a clear understanding of money, and a sense of what we can know about money, can improve our comprehension on monetary policy. It establishes a link between abstract and theoretical aspects of …
The central thesis of the book is that in order to evaluate monetary policy, one should have a clear idea about the characteristics and functions of money as it evolved and in its current form. That is to say that without an understanding about how money evolved as a social inst…
This book examines the characteristics of monetary institutions and the ways in which a clear understanding of money, and a sense of what we can know about money, can improve our comprehension on monetary policy. It establishes a link between abstract and theoretical aspects of …
Dans cet ouvrage, classique de la sociologie, Simmel analyse l'ambivalence de la modernité. 'S'il doit y avoir une philosophie de l'argent, elle sera en deçà et au-delà d'une science économique de celui-ci ... La genèse de l'argent n'est point ici en cause, elle appartient à l'h…
