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"Expanding upon the literature of new institutional economics, the first part of this study stresses the significance of imperfections in information, bankruptcy and banks. The second part examines the policy implications of the new paradigm emphasizing loanable fund demand and …
Montrant le rôle de l'hypertophie de l'économie financière dans la crise économique de 2008, l'anthropologue décrit comment l'argent est devenu durant la seconde moitié du XXe siècle la principale marchandise faisant l'objet d'un commerce. Il propose une réflexion sur la monnaie…
Adorée ou détestée, proscrite ou imposée, la monnaie joue dans les nations le rôle du sang dans le corps humain. En nous contant son histoire, l'auteur renouvelle celle des peuples qui tous ont dû s'assigner des règles monétaires pour accéder à la civilisation de l'échange. Les …
Gefällt Ihnen die Zahl auf Ihrem Gehaltszettel? Gibt man Ihnen im Hotel das Zimmer mit Ausblick? War Ihr Auto ein Schnäppchen? Ja? Dann können Sie hier aussteigen. Allen anderen verrät Wirtschaftspsychologe Jack Nasher, wie man endlich das bekommt, was man will - durch effektive…
"As the United States struggles and the economies of Europe stagger, we fail to see a way out of this agonizing cycle of repeated financial meltdowns. In fact, there are thousands of ways to solve not only our recurring fiscal crises but our ongoing social and ecological debacle…
"Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their e…
Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods that is, long before the invention of coins …
Why should each country have its own exclusive currency? Eric Helleiner offers a fascinating and unique perspective on this question in his accessible history of the origins of national money. Our contemporary understandings of national currency are, Helleiner shows, surprisingl…
Money, finance and capitalist development
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