Money in a human economy / / edited by Keith Hart

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792922603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 1-78533-560-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 pages)
• Collana: Human Economy ; ; Volume 5
• Disciplina: 332.4
• Soggetti: Money - History; Foreign exchange
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 money / Joseph Noko -- Luxury and the sexual economy of capitalism / Noam Yuran -- The evolution of money today -- The future of money is shaped by the family practices of the global south / Supriya Singh -- Remittance securitization in the hemisphere of the Americas : from Wall Street to Calle principal and back / David Pedersen -- Cross-border investment in China / Horacio Ortiz -- Value transfer and rent : or, I didn't realize my payment was your annuity / Bill Maurer -- The politics of bitcoin / Nigel Dodd -- Money in its time and place -- A South Asian mercantile model of exchange : hundi during British rule / Marina Martin -- Money and markets for and against the people : the rise and fall of Basotho's economic independence, 1830s-1930s / Sean Maliehe -- Gender and money in the Argentinian trueque / Hadrien Saiag -- Imaginary monies in Haiti / Federico Neibourg -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 evolution (banking the unbanked and remittances in the South, cross-; border investment in China, the payments industry and the politics of bitcoin); and cases from 19th century India and Southern Africa to contemporary Haiti and Argentina. Money is one idea with diverse forms. As national monopoly currencies give way to regional and global federalism, money is a key to achieving economic democracy.