An Anthropology of Money: A Critical Introduction

by Richard H. Robbins and Tim Di Muzio

Book Overview

Money: A Critical Introduction shows how our present monetary system was imposed by elites and how they benefit from it. The book poses the question: how, by looking at different forms of money, can we appreciate that they have different effects? The authors demonstrate how modern money requires perpetual growth, an increase in inequality, environmental devastation, increasing commoditization, and, consequently, the perpetual consumption of evermore...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138645982
• ISBN13: 9781138645981
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"