Format:
1 online resource (183 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415318051
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9780203496701
Series Statement:
Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Series
Content:
The idea that money and its power over the world needs to be demystified, is one that not many people will argue with. This snappy well argued book attempts to do exactly that
Note:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I Commodities, markets and capital -- 1 Social relations underpinning commodity markets -- 1.1 Products and commodities -- 1.2 The economic and the non-economic spheres of capitalist society -- 1.3 Class relations in the capitalist economy -- 1.4 Capital and commodities -- 1.5 Markets without commodities, and markets in commodities not produced by capital -- 2 Commodities and gifts -- 2.1 Commodities and gifts as tokens of market and non market relations -- 2.2 Commodity and gift exchangeability -- 2.3 The role of use value in commodity exchange -- 2.4 Non-market relations in creation and deployment of labour power -- PART II Money and credit -- 3 Money's monopoly over the ability to buy -- 3.1 The peculiar role of money in capitalist exchange -- 3.2 The theoretical problem of money's emergence and the labour theory of value -- 3.3 The 'simple, isolated, or accidental form of value' -- 3.4 The 'total or expanded form of value' -- 3.5 The 'general form of value' and the role of social custom -- 3.6 The 'money form of value' -- 3.7 The specific character of monetary exchange in contrast to barter -- 3.8 Money as source of social power -- 4 The social content of credit relations -- 4.1 Trust and the structure of the capitalist credit system -- 4.2 Non-economic foundations of commercial (trade) credit relations -- 4.3 The role of trust in the operations of banking (monetary) credit -- 4.4 The social character of money market credit -- 4.5 Central bank credit -- 4.6 Conclusion -- PART III Theoretical approaches to the social relations sustaining markets and money -- 5 Social norms and institutions in the capitalist economy -- 5.1 Rationality and social norms in economic analysis -- 5.2 Institutions and markets
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5.3 Information-theoretic analysis and neoclassical economics -- 5.4 The 'embeddedness' of the capitalist economy in social relations -- 5.5 'Social capital' and the capitalist economy -- 6 The emergence and functioning of money -- 6.1 Money as means of exchange -- 6.2 Money as unit of account -- 6.3 'Multiple' markets and money -- 6.4 'Limited-purpose' and 'general-purpose' money -- 7 Money as unit of account and means of exchange in a socialist society -- 7.1 Socialism as the conscious ascendancy of the non-economic -- 7.2 Labour money -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Lapavitsas, Costas Social Foundations of Markets, Money and Credit Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780415318051
Language:
English
Keywords:
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