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8. A Natural History of Money

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Autor: Karl Seeley

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Erschienen in: Macroeconomics in Ecological Context

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Abstract

Money is an essentially social phenomenon. In its details it is uniquely human, but it is enmeshed with the economy’s physical processes and in its functioning it bears a limited resemblance to mechanisms of social coordination that exist in other species. We begin with examples from those other species, covering both production for current use and behaviors that are functionally forms of investment. We then sketch different forms of coordination structures that humans use, leading to the coordinating role of money. The consideration of investment leads to the role of credit and its relationship to money.

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Titel

A Natural History of Money

Buch

Macroeconomics in Ecological Context

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-51755-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-51757-5

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51757-5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51757-5_8

Autor:

Karl Seeley

Verlag

Springer International Publishing

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