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Author : Brian M. Lavelle
Release : 2005-01-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 247/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fame, Money, and Power by : Brian M. Lavelle
Download or read book Fame, Money, and Power written by Brian M. Lavelle. This book was released on 2005-01-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges long-accepted notions about the relationship between early Athenian tyranny and democracy
Author : Robert Pringle
Release : 2019-12-06
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 947/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Power of Money by : Robert Pringle
Download or read book The Power of Money written by Robert Pringle. This book was released on 2019-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation in money is just as important as innovation in any other sphere of activity; money is always a “work in progress.” In fact, history shows societies have tried out a wide diversity of monetary arrangements. Ideas about money have played key roles at crucial turning points in world history and during national histories. Recently, a new global money space has been created, a joint venture between the public and private sector. This book explores the new money society that has grown up to inhabit this new space. The book has several aims: Firstly, the book shows how beliefs about money, as well as attitudes and values towards it, have varied between societies and over time, and specifically how they have changed over the modern era. Secondly, the book shows the powerful effects that changing ideas have had on events, including wars and revolutions, recessions, booms and financial crises. Thirdly, the book recounts the creation of a global money space, dated to the last quarter of the 20th century, and explores its features. Fourthly, the book describes some characteristics of the new money society that inhabits the global money space. Fifthly, the book shows how each society, and indeed successive generations of the same society, has made its own unique arrangements to govern money – i.e. how it comes to terms with the power of money. The author argues that we need to develop a new arrangement now and suggests that we have much to learn from recent creative work in a number of fields ranging from the sociology of money to contemporary art. This approach sheds new light on a number of controversial issues, including the rise of crony capitalism, growing social divisions, currency wars, and asset price bubbles.
Author : Irving Fisher
Release : 1911
Genre : Money
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Book Synopsis The Purchasing Power of Money by : Irving Fisher
Download or read book The Purchasing Power of Money written by Irving Fisher. This book was released on 1911. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacques Ellul
Release : 1986
Genre : Money
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Book Synopsis Money & Power by : Jacques Ellul
Download or read book Money & Power written by Jacques Ellul. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ariel Wilkis
Release : 2017-12-19
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Moral Power of Money by : Ariel Wilkis
Download or read book The Moral Power of Money written by Ariel Wilkis. This book was released on 2017-12-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money investigates the forces of power and morality at play, particularly among the poor. Drawing on fieldwork in a slum of Buenos Aires, Ariel Wilkis argues that money is a critical symbol used to negotiate not only material possessions, but also the political, economic, class, gender, and generational bonds between people. Through vivid accounts of the stark realities of life in Villa Olimpia, Wilkis highlights the interplay of money, morality, and power. Drawing out the theoretical implications of these stories, he proposes a new concept of moral capital based on different kinds, or "pieces," of money. Each chapter covers a different "piece"—money earned from the informal and illegal economies, money lent through family and market relations, money donated with conditional cash transfers, political money that binds politicians and their supporters, sacrificed money offered to the church, and safeguarded money used to support people facing hardships. This book builds an original theory of the moral sociology of money, providing the tools for understanding the role money plays in social life today.
