The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor

The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies - (Original Edition)
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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 social relations to cold, hard cash. Arguing against this conventional wisdom, Viviana Zelizer, a distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author, shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendship and family relations, and otherwise varying the process by which spending and saving takes place.
Country USA
Brand Princeton University Press
Manufacturer Princeton University Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 1997-08-24
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780691048215

The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies - (Original Edition)