Money Counts

Revisiting Economic Calculation
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-684-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 142 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 375 g

Reihe: Studies in Social Analysis

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, and socialist Havana, the chapters in this volume offer new theoretical and empirical interpretations of money’s quantitative nature as it relates to abstraction, sociality, materiality, freedom, and morality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schmidt, Mario

Ross, Sandy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Quality of Quantity: Monetary Amounts and Their Materialities

Sandy Ross, Mario Schmidt, and Ville Koskinen

Chapter 1. Is Gold Jewelry Money?

Peter Oakley

Chapter 2. Injury and Measurement: Jacob Grimm on Blood Money and Concrete Quantification

Anna Echterhölter

Chapter 3. Five Thousand, 5,00, and Five Thousands: Disentangling Ruble Quantities and Qualities

Sandy Ross

Chapter 4. “Money is Life:” Quantity, Social Freedom, and Combinatory Practices in Western Kenya

Mario Schmidt

Chapter 5. Money and Morality of Commensuration: Currencies of Poverty in Post-Soviet Cuba

Martin Holbraad

Chapter 6. ‘Money on the Street’ as a Hoard: How Informal Moneylenders Remain Unbanked

Martin Fotta

Chapter 7. What is Money? A Definition Beyond Materiality and Quantity

Emanuel Seitz

Afterword

Nigel Dodd

Über Autor(innen)

Ross, Sandy
Sandy Ross has been a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, and a Sociology Fellow at the Higher School of Economics. With Chris Swader, she is editing a forthcoming issue on post-socialist moral economies for the Journal of Consumer Culture, and her newest book, Weapons of the Geek: Moral Economies in the 21st Century, will be published in 2020 by Palgrave.

Schmidt, Mario
Mario Schmidt is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School of the Humanities at the University of Cologne. He has published in journals including Africa, Ethnohistory, and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. His research interests include the rise of behavioral economics in East Africa, the importance of part-whole relations for an understanding of money, and the impact of concepts from the natural sciences on the development of Émile Durkheim’s and Marcel Mauss’s thought.

Mario Schmidt is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School of the Humanities at the University of Cologne. He has published in journals including Africa, Ethnohistory, and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. His research interests include the rise of behavioral economics in East Africa, the importance of part-whole relations for an understanding of money, and the impact of concepts from the natural sciences on the development of Émile Durkheim’s and Marcel Mauss’s thought.