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Author : Georg Simmel
Release : 2004-08-02
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 395/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Philosophy of Money by : Georg Simmel
Download or read book The Philosophy of Money written by Georg Simmel. This book was released on 2004-08-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of the first complete translation of the seminal work 'Die Philosophie des Geldes' by Georg Simmel includes a new preface by David Frisby.
Author : Gianfranco Poggi
Release : 1993
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 719/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Money and the Modern Mind by : Gianfranco Poggi
Download or read book Money and the Modern Mind written by Gianfranco Poggi. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major representative of the German sociological tradition, Georg Simmel (1858-1918) has influenced social thinkers ranging from the Chicago School to Walter Benjamin. His magnum opus, The Philosophy of Money, published in 1900, is nevertheless a difficult book that has daunted many would-be readers. Gianfranco Poggi makes this important work accessible to a broader range of scholars and students, offering a compact and systematically organized presentation of its main arguments. Simmel's insights about money are as valid today as they were a hundred years ago. Poggi provides a sort of reader's manual to Simmel's work, deepening the reader's understanding of money while at the same time offering a new appreciation of the originality of Simmel's social theory.
Author : Ole Bjerg
Release : 2014-04-22
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 658/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Making Money by : Ole Bjerg
Download or read book Making Money written by Ole Bjerg. This book was released on 2014-04-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is money? Where does it come from? Who makes our money today? And how can we understand the current state of our economy as a crisis of money itself? In Making Money, Ole Bjerg turns these questions into a matter of philosophical rather than economic analysis. Using the thinking of Slavoj Žižek, while still engaging with mainstream economic literature, the book provides a genuinely philosophical theory of money. This theory is unfolded in reflections on the nature of monetary phenomenon such as financial markets, banks, debt, credit, derivatives, gold, risk, value, price, interests, and arbitrage. The analysis of money is put into an historical context by suggesting that the current financial turbulence and debt crisis are symptoms that we live in the age of post-credit capitalism. By bridging the fields of economics and contemporary philosophy, Bjerg's work engages in a productive form of intellectual arbitrage.
Author : Leonidas Zelmanovitz
Release : 2015-12-24
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 123/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ontology and Function of Money by : Leonidas Zelmanovitz
Download or read book The Ontology and Function of Money written by Leonidas Zelmanovitz. This book was released on 2015-12-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central thesis of the book is that in order to evaluate monetary policy, one should have a clear idea about the characteristics and functions of money as it evolved and in its current form. That is to say that without an understanding about how money evolved as a social institution, what it is today, and what is possible to know about monetary phenomena, it is not possible to develop a meaningful ethics for money; or, to put it differently, to find what kind of institutional arrangements may be deemed good money for the kind of society we are in. And without that, one faces severe limitations in offering a normative position about monetary policy. The project is, consequently, an interdisciplinary one. Its main thread is an inquiry of moral philosophy and its foundations, as applied to money, in order to create tools to evaluate public policy in regard to money, banking, and public finance; and the views of different schools on those topics are discussed. The book is organized in parts on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and politics of money to facilitate the presentation of all the subjects discussed to an educated readership (and not necessarily just one with a background in economics).
Author : Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir
Release : 2018-10-16
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 370/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Reality of Money by : Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir
Download or read book The Reality of Money written by Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir. This book was released on 2018-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is money and how does it acquire its value? How do we assign a measurable monetary value to human goods that do not seem quantifiable? What role does money play in the structure of society? Is money an illusion or is it real? Despite the enormous impact of money on the structure of human society, as well as its effect on our daily decision-making, surprisingly little philosophical work has been done on money to date. This book examines the metaphysical foundations of money as well as the power structures that characterize the world of finance, connecting the ontology of money to considerations about inequality and other real-life issues. By throwing light on the metaphysical structure of money and financial value, Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir seeks to further the philosophical discussion of money and contribute to a broader critique of the monetary system.
