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The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies

(Paperback, Revised edition)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies

Contributors:

By (Author) Viviana A. Zelizer
Foreword by Nigel Dodd
Afterword by Viviana A. Zelizer

ISBN:

9780691176031

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

Imprint:

Princeton University Press

Publication Date:

17th July 2017

Edition:

Revised edition

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Monetary economics
Economics

Dewey:

332.4

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

320

Dimensions:

Width 140mm, Height 216mm

Weight:

369g

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 convent

Reviews

Winner of the 1996 Culture Section Book Award, American Sociological Association "Interesting and informative... Money is a medium of exchange. But that is only the beginning."--John Kenneth Galbraith, New York Times Book Review "Zelizer's book is one of the richest and most thoughtful investigations of [money's] weirdness, examining in detail how money works in the real world, how we try to manage and control it, why we freely give it away in some circumstances--think, for instance, of tipping and how money shapes the relationships we have with one another."--James Surowiecki, GQ Magazine "Zelizer has accomplished a rarity, writing a genuinely original book."--Randall Collins, Society

Author Bio

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

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