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100 1 _aKapadia, Anush,
_eauthor.
245 1 2 _aA political theory of money /
_cAnush Kapadia.
260 _aCambridge, United Kingdom ;
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2023.
263 _a2308
264 1 _aCambridge, United Kingdom ;
_aNew York, NY, USA :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2023.
300 _apages cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"Understanding money's nature as political, institutional and material answers today's big money questions. Money remains a foundational question of social theory. What is money? Why does something so insubstantial have value? How do money systems make promises function like valuable things? Why are money systems always hierarchical yet variable? The answer, A Political Theory of Money argues, is politics. Money is institutionalised social power. Politics generates institutions that differentially lock into the future product of political and economic collectives. Money emerges from the institutionalisation of social antagonisms to encapsulate a collective's productive potential in a flexible, tradable instrument. This takes a system. Money is built in hierarchical layers out of the inherently variable material of politics and at various economic scales. This book outlines these variable processes theoretically and through case studies"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aMoney.
650 0 _aMoney
_xPolitical aspects.
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aKapadia, Anush.
_tPolitical theory of money
_dCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2023
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