The Nature of Money

In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the ‘social relation’ of money. <br /> <ul class=”noindent”> <li>Genuinely multidisciplinary approach, based on a thorough knowledge of theories of money in the social sciences<br /> </li> <li>An original development of the neglected heterodox theories of money<br /> </li> <li>New histories of the origins and development of forms of money and their social relations of production in different monetary systems<br /> </li> <li>A radical interpretation of capitalism as a particular type of monetary system and the first sociological outline of the institutional structure of the social production of capitalist money<br /> </li> <li>A radical critique of recent writing on global e-money, the so-called ‘end of money’, and new monetary spaces such as the euro.</li> </ul>