The Social Meaning of Money by Viviana A Zelizer
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.
Winner of the 1996 Culture Section Book Award, American Sociological Association "Viviana Zelizer has written an interesting and informative book showing that there is much more to the meaning of money than.. economic theory and its formidable equations ever imply. Money is a medium of exchange. But that is only the beginning."--John Kenneth Galbraith, The New York Times Book Review "Viviana Zelizer's book is one of the richest and most thoughtful investigations of [money's] weirdness, examining in detail how money works in the real world, how we try to manage and control it, why we freely give it away in some circumstances-think, for instance, of tipping'and how money shapes the relationships we have with one another."--GQ.com
Viviana A. Zelizer is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She is also author of Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children (Princeton) and winner of the C. Wright Mills Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691048215 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691048215 |
| Title | The Social Meaning of Money |
| Author | Viviana A Zelizer |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1997-08-24 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Winner of American Sociological Association Culture Section Distinguished Book Award 1996 |
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