The Nature Of Money Av Geoffrey (University Of Cambridge) Ingham

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><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>