The Social Meaning of Money
Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies
1st Edition
Published on 8. September 2021
320 pages
978-0-691-23700-8 (ISBN)
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 relations to cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money. Or is it? Distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author Viviana Zelizer argues against this conventional wisdom. She 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. Zelizer concentrates on domestic transactions, bestowals of gifts and charitable donations in order to show how individuals, families, governments, and businesses have all prescribed social meaning to money in ways previously unimagined.
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Viviana A. Zelizer
The Social Meaning of Money
Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies
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05/2017
Princeton University Press
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Viviana A. Zelizer is the Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She is the author of The Purchase of Intimacy, Pricing the Priceless Child, Economic Lives and Morals and Markets
Content
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Foreword to the 2017 Edition
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Marking of Money
- 2. The Domestic Production of Monies
- 3. Gifted Money
- 4. Poor People's Money
- 5. With Strings Attached: The Earmarking of Charitable Cash
- 6. Contested Monies
- 7. What Does Money Mean?
- Afterword To The Z017 Edition
- Notes
- Index
