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The Social Meaning of Money - Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies (Paperback, Revised edition)
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The Social Meaning of Money - Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies (Paperback, Revised 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 relations to
cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money. Or is it?
Distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author Viviana
Zelizer argues against this conventional wisdom. She 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. Zelizer
concentrates on domestic transactions, bestowals of gifts and
charitable donations in order to show how individuals, families,
governments, and businesses have all prescribed social meaning to
money in ways previously unimagined.
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