The fetishism to credit money with an intrinsic power to change ('invert') society and culture
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Pedagogy - Science, Theory, Anthropology, grade: 69, University of Cambridge, language: English, abstract: Modern money is not easily captured. Some accounts even claim that its defining feature is its quality as a universal leveller and yardstick (see Maurer, 2006:16). This quality, however, is exactly what we want to debate. Without being confined to a particular conceptualisation of 'modern money' as a means of payment, a store of value and a unit of account, I want to approach money as such in its various forms in traditional (nonmodern) contexts and our own 'credit-money'-bank form. The question is…
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- ISBN: 978-3-656-46496-9
- EAN: 9783656464969
- Produktnummer: 24250437
- Verlag: GRIN Verlag
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 6 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 486 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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