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8. Money: Instrument of Exchange or Social Institution of Value?

Author : André Orléan

Published in: Institutionalist Theories of Money

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

It is striking that many sociologists observe that their discipline has failed to establish an adequate intellectual framework for the systematic analysis of money. This led Geoffrey Ingham to speak of an ‘Underdevelopment of the sociology of money’ (Ingham in Sociologica 41(10): 3–18 1998).

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Metadata
Title
Money: Instrument of Exchange or Social Institution of Value?
Author
André Orléan
Copyright Year
2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59483-1_8