Social foundations of markets, money, and credit / / ostas Lapavitsas

• Autore: Lapavitsas Costas <1961, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (183 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.12/2
• Soggetto topico: Capitalism; Marxian economics; Money; Credit; Economics - Sociological aspects
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Commodities, markets and capital; Social relations underpinning commodity markets; Commodities and gifts; Money and credit; Money's monopoly over the ability to buy; The social content of credit relations; Theoretical approaches to the social relations sustaining markets and money; Social norms and institutions in the capitalist economy; The emergence and functioning of money; Money as unit of account and means of exchange in a socialist society; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Where does the power of money come from? Why is trust so important in financial operations? How does the swapping of gifts differ from the exchange of commodities? Where does self-interest stop and communal solidarity start in capitalist economies?These issues and many more are discussed in a rigorous, yet readable, manner in Social Foundations of Markets, Money and Credit. It is shown in particular that capitalist economies are permeated with non-economic characteristics.This carefully argued book will prove interesting and valuable to students and researchers not only in eco
• Titolo autorizzato: Social foundations of markets, money, and credit
• ISBN: 1-134-36880-1; 0-429-23357-4; 1-138-81080-0; 1-280-02465-8; 0-203-49670-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816207103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 49.