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OverviewQuestions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it, there are more forms and systems of money, from local currencies and social lending to mobile money and Bitcoin. Yet our understanding of what money is--and what it might be--hasn't kept pace. In The So Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nigel Dodd , Nigel DoddPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Edition: Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.624kg ISBN: 9780691169170ISBN 10: 0691169179 Pages: 464 Publication Date: 09 February 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsPREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION IX ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS XVII INTRODUCTION 1 1 ORIGINS Barter 17 Tribute 23 Quantification 27 Mana 30 Language 34 Violence 43 Conclusion 46 2 CAPITAL The Contradictions of Money 51 Credit Money 55 Finance Capital 59 Primitive Accumulation 63 When Credit Fails 66 Behind the Veil 72 Seeing Double 79 Conclusion 87 3 DEBT Debt's Untold Story 94 Credit and Nothing but Credit 102 Neochartalism 106 Schumpeter's Banks 111 Minsky's Half-Century 117 Strange Money 121 Austerity Myths 126 Conclusion 132 4 GUILT Ubermensch and Eternal Return 136 Capitalism, Debt, and Religion 142 Filthy Lucre 149 Conclusion 158 5 WASTE Money, Excretion, and Heterogeneous Matter 166 Derrida's Ghosts 179 Cool Money, Living Money 189 Conclusion 204 6 TERRITORY Westfailure 216 Nomisma 222 Deterritorialization 226 Empire 237 Euroland 251 Conclusion 266 7 CULTURE Money and Cultural Alienation 273 Polanyi and the Problem of Embeddedness 278 Relational Monies 286 Scales of Value 294 A Quality Theory of Money 298 Repersonalizing Impersonal Money 305 Conclusion 310 8 UTOPIA Simmel's Perfect Money 316 Fromm's Humanistic Utopia 330 Giving Time for Time 342 Rotting Money 346 Proudhon's Bank 351 Vires in Numeris 362 Toward a Monetary Commons 372 Conclusion 381 CONCLUSION 385 BIBLIOGRAPHY 395 INDEX 421ReviewsAn exhaustive analysis of money as a complex social process--not a thing--that will appeal to scholars in many fields. --Kirkus Reviews Dodd presents a wide-ranging and sophisticated review and integration of the academic work related to alternative conceptions of modern money... [T]his is a richly rewarding book. Those of us accustomed to thinking of money as something we exchange for beer and pizza will never again have such a simple story. --Pietra Rivoli, Financial Times Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money is fascinating. --Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist Exhaustively researched... Unexpected and fascinating. --BizEd [T]his brilliant book helps reconsidering views, opinions and theoretical claims on money that might be taken for granted too easily. It is a must-read for any scholar interested in the topic as it helps to better understand the nature of money--or, of monies. Also, surely many future in-depth case studies of particular forms of money will gain enormously from this work. --Philipp Degens, LSE Sociology As this book copiously shows, money is probably one of the most used concepts in the social sciences and the humanities, not counting economics... A significant accomplishment --Alex Preda, American Journal of Sociology This book is a serious but enjoyable read that is highly recommended for all; for laypeople, students, professional academics, basically anyone who is interested in the role of money in society. This book will undoubtedly lead the reader to reflect on some innovative and alternative ways to think about social reform and how reinventing money could improve our societies. It is a volume of creative experimentation that can be returned to again and again; there is much to digest and ponder here. --Tamara d'Auvergne, Symbolic Interaction An exhaustive analysis of money as a complex social process--not a thing--that will appeal to scholars in many fields. --Kirkus Reviews Dodd presents a wide-ranging and sophisticated review and integration of the academic work related to alternative conceptions of modern money... [T]his is a richly rewarding book. Those of us accustomed to thinking of money as something we exchange for beer and pizza will never again have such a simple story. --Pietra Rivoli, Financial Times Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money is fascinating. --Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist Exhaustively researched... Unexpected and fascinating. --BizEd [T]his brilliant book helps reconsidering views, opinions and theoretical claims on money that might be taken for granted too easily. It is a must-read for any scholar interested in the topic as it helps to better understand the nature of money--or, of monies. Also, surely many future in-depth case studies of particular forms of money will gain enormously from this work. --Philipp Degens, LSE Sociology This book is a serious but enjoyable read that is highly recommended for all; for laypeople, students, professional academics, basically anyone who is interested in the role of money in society. This book will undoubtedly lead the reader to reflect on some innovative and alternative ways to think about social reform and how reinventing money could improve our societies. It is a volume of creative experimentation that can be returned to again and again; there is much to digest and ponder here. --Tamara d'Auvergne, Symbolic Interaction As this book copiously shows, money is probably one of the most used concepts in the social sciences and the humanities, not counting economics. . . . A significant accomplishment --Alex Preda, American Journal of Sociology [T]his brilliant book helps reconsidering views, opinions and theoretical claims on money that might be taken for granted too easily. It is a must-read for any scholar interested in the topic as it helps to better understand the nature of money--or, of monies. Also, surely many future in-depth case studies of particular forms of money will gain enormously from this work. --Philipp Degens, LSE Sociology Exhaustively researched. . . . Unexpected and fascinating. --BizEd Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money is fascinating. --Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist Dodd presents a wide-ranging and sophisticated review and integration of the academic work related to alternative conceptions of modern money. . . . [T]his is a richly rewarding book. Those of us accustomed to thinking of money as something we exchange for beer and pizza will never again have such a simple story. --Pietra Rivoli, Financial Times An exhaustive analysis of money as a complex social process--not a thing--that will appeal to scholars in many fields. --Kirkus Reviews Author InformationNigel Dodd is professor of sociology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of The Sociology of Money and Social Theory and Modernity. 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