The Social Meaning of Money

ZELIZER,V

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Author
ZELIZER,V
Publish Date
09/01/1997
Book Type
paperback
Publisher Name
PUPRESS
Subtitle
Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies - (Original Edition)
Number of Pages
304
ISBN-10
0691048215
ISBN-13
9780691048215
citemno
111452
Edition
(Original ) ed.
SKU
9780691048215

Description

A dollar is a dollar--or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the 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 Zelizer, a distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author, shows how people have invented their own forms 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.