{"product_id":"cooking-the-books-1","title":"Cooking the Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnna Kassulke provides a penetrating scrutiny of the most globally important concept of our time: money. Dr. Kassulke has gathered together a rich selection of money stories and characters, and shows how they function in terms of both our social relations as well as our psychological and cognitive makeup.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoney was invented when human beings minted coins. Then we printed paper money, and now we have e-cash. Or so the fiction of money's origins would have it. Dr. Kassulke unveils the purely mythological status money has in contemporary Western societies. She presents a wide range of concepts attached to money in its various forms, from coins to paper to e-cash. Examples are drawn from children's literature, popular novels, films, advertising, biographies, financial journalism, political-economic theory, and sociology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith considerable sensitivity to both textual analysis and historical context, Kassulke provides a penetrating scrutiny of the most globally important concept of our time: money. She pinpoints how money's mythologies determine social relations as well as subjectivity. Perceptive, lucid, and elegant, \u003ci\u003eCooking the Books\u003c\/i\u003e exposes an important area of cultural activity that will be of great interest to scholars and students in cultural studies, communications studies, and comparative literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54218911383896,"sku":"9780275970475","price":87.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780275970475.jpg?v=1769660115","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/cooking-the-books-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}