Money Counts: Revisiting Economic Calculation

Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantitative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. Money Counts moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money's quantity. Drawing from case studies including British jewelers, blood-money payments in Germanic law codes, and the quotidian use of money in cosmopolitical Moscow, a Western Kenyan village,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789206855
• ISBN13: 9781789206852
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"