Money and Calculation: Economic and Sociological Perspectives
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Money is an important instrument of calculation: as a unit of account and means of payment, it serves the purpose of exchange. Yet, it is increasingly becoming itself an object of exchange and calculation on financial markets, which tend less to the production and exchange of real goods. The question therefore is: has the economy lost its measure?
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Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
Publication Date: 17 Sep 2010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780230277779
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MASSIMO AMATO teaches economic history and history of economic thought at Bocconi University Italy. His publications concern the history of money and of monetary thought. His more recent book entitled: The Enigma of Money deals with the phenomenological foundations of money as an institution. LUIGI DORIA carries out research activities at Bocconi University Italy. Previously he was Fellow at the Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies France and did research at the University IUAV of Venice Italy. His recent research interests focus on economic sociology and in particular on the relationship between calculation and quality. LUCA FANTACCI is Assistant Professor of Economic History at Bocconi University Italy. He has published on the history of money and credit and of economic thought including a book co-written with Massimo Amato on the current financial crisis entitled: The End of Finance.