The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief and Other Currencies Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief and Other Currencies Book

A dollar is a dollar-- or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of teh ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing social relations to cold, hard cash. Arguing against this conventional wisdom, Viviana A. Zelizer, a distinguished social scientist and prizewinning author, shows how people have invented their own form of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendship and family relations, and otherwise varying the process by which spending and saving takes place.Read More

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  • 0465078923
  • 9780465078929
  • Viviana A.Rotman Zelizer
  • 12 May 1995
  • Basic Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 304
  • Reprint
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