Money talks : explaining how money really works /
edited by Nina Bandelj, Frederick F. Wherry and Viviana A. Zelizer.
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction. Advancing money talks / Part II. Beyond special monies. The social meaning of credit, value, and finance / Part III. Creating money. The constitutional approach to money: monetary design and the production of the modern world / Part IV. Contested money. Money and emotion : win-win bargains, win-lose contexts, and the emotional labor of commercial surrogates / Part V. Money futures. Money talks, plastic money tattles : the new sociability of money / Nina Bandelj, Frederick F. Wherry and Viviana A. Zelizer ; Part I. Beyond fungibility. Economics and the social meaning of money / Jonathan Morduch ; Morals and emotions of money / Nina Bandelj [and others] ; How relational accounting matters / Frederick F. Wherry -- Bruce G. Carruthers ; From industrial money to generalized capitalization / Simone Polillo -- Christine Desan ; The market mirage / David Singh Grewal ; The macro-social meaning of money : from territorial currencies to global money / Eric Helleiner -- Arlie Hochschild ; Paid to donate: egg donors, sperm donors, and gendered experiences of bodily commodifications / Rene Almeling ; Money and family relationships : the biography of transnational money / Supriya Singh -- Alya Guseva and Akos Rona-Tas ; Blockchains are a diamond's best friend : Zelizer for the Bitcoin moment / Bill Maurer ; Utopian monies : complementary currencies, Bitcoin, and the social life of money / Nigel Dodd.
The world of money is being transformed as households and organizations face changing economies and new currencies and payment systems like Bitcoin and Apple Pay gain ground. What is money, and how do we make sense of it? Money Talks is the first book to offer a wide range of alternative and unexpected explanations of how social relations, emotions, moral concerns, and institutions shape how we create, mark, and use money. This collection brings together a stellar group of international experts from multiple disciplines--sociology, economics, history, law, anthropology, political science, and philosophy--to propose fresh explanations for money's origins, uses, effects, and future. Money Talks explores five key questions: How do social relationships, emotions, and morals shape how people account for and use their money? How do corporations infuse social meaning into their financing and investment practices? What are the historical, political, and social foundations of currencies? When does money become contested, and are there things money shouldn't buy? What is the impact of the new twenty-first-century currencies on our social relations? At a time of growing concern over financial inequality, Money Talks overturns conventional views about money by revealing its profound social potential.