Money and the Morality of Exchange Book

Paperback. Pub Date: 1989 Pages: 172 Publisher: Camidge. University Press This volume deals with the way in which money is at least symbolically represented in a range of different Cultures from South and South-East Asia Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which corrodes community. depersonalises human relationships. and reduces differences of quality to those of mere quantity; that it is the instrument of man's freedom. and so on. Rather than supporting the proposition that money produces easily specifiable changes in world view. the emphasis here is on the way in which existing world views and economic systems give rise to particular ways of representing money. But this high...Read More