Money as a Social Institution: The Institutional Development of Capitalism (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (610 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073FQ7LVC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 522 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is then followed with double-entry accounting as a tool of long-distance merchants and bankers, then the monitoring of the process of production by professional corporate managers. Money is usually understood as a valuable object, the value of which is attributed to it by its users and which other users recognize. It serves to link disparate institutions, providing a disguised whole and prime tool for the “invisible hand” of the market.This book offers an interpretation of money as a social institution. Money provides the link between the household and the firm, the worker and his product, making that very division seem natural and money as imminently practical. Money as a Social Institution begins in the medieval period and tr
She serves as the Chair of the Department of Economics, Accounting, and Finance, and was the founding director of the Marist College Bureau of Economic Research, 1990–2005. She was the Director of the National Endowment for Humanities Summer Institute on the “Meanings of Property,” June 2014, and is the author of The Evolution of the Property Relation, 2015.. Davis is Associate Professor of Economics at Marist College, USA. About the AuthorAnn E
She serves as the Chair of the Department of Economics, Accounting, and Finance, and was the founding director of the Marist College Bureau of Economic Research, 1990–2005. Davis is Associate Professor of Economics at Marist College, USA. She was the Director of the National Endowment for Humanities Summer Institu