02862nam 2200661 450 991046391410332120200520144314.00-8047-8889-810.1515/9780804788892(CKB)2670000000545082(EBL)1642555(SSID)ssj0001133175(PQKBManifestationID)12480779(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133175(PQKBWorkID)11172682(PQKB)11711057(MiAaPQ)EBC1642555(DE-B1597)564918(DE-B1597)9780804788892(PPN)236068784(Au-PeEL)EBL1642555(CaPaEBR)ebr10852494(OCoLC)875390348(OCoLC)1224278100(EXLCZ)99267000000054508220140408h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWhat money wants an economy of desire /Noam Yuran ; with a preface by Keith HartStanford, California :Stanford University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (319 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-8593-7 0-8047-8592-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface by Keith Hart; Introduction; 1. Ontology: The Specter of Greed; Part I: Between Orthodox and Heterodox Economics; Part II: What Is a Social Object?; 2. History: Fantasies of a Capitalist; 3. Mystery: The Materiality of Symbols; 4. Revelation: Weber's Midas; 5. The Economic Sublime: The Fantastic Colors of Money; Notes; Bibliography; IndexOne thing all mainstream economists agree upon is that money has nothing whatsoever to do with desire. This strange blindness of the profession to what is otherwise considered to be a basic feature of economic life serves as the starting point for this provocative new theory of money. Through the works of Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, and Max Weber, What Money Wants argues that money is first and foremost an object of desire. In contrast to the common notion that money is but an ordinary object that people believe to be money, this book explores the theoretical consequences of the pMoneyPhilosophyDesireEconomic aspectsEconomicsPhilosophyElectronic books.MoneyPhilosophy.DesireEconomic aspects.EconomicsPhilosophy.330.01/9Yuran Noam1045387Hart KeithMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463914103321What money wants2471633UNINA