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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	März 2010
Genre:	Wirtschaft / Recht
ISBN:	9780745643922
EAN-Code:	9780745643922
Verlag:	Polity Press
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Serie:	PESS - Polity Economy and Society Series
Dimensionen:	H 211 mm / B 149 mm / D 17 mm
Gewicht:	290 gr
Seiten:	200
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Inhalt:

This book offers a fresh and uniquely sociological perspective on money and credit. As basic economic institutions, money and credit are easy to overlook when they work well. When they malfunction, as they did in the new millennium's global financial crisis, their importance becomes obvious and demands further investigation. Bruce Carruthers and Laura Ariovich examine the social dimensions of money and credit at both the individual and corporate levels, from the development of personal credit and a consumer society, to the role of government in the creation of money. In clear prose, they illustrate how the overall future of the economy is governed by the financial system and the flow of capital into, and out of, firms operating in particular industrial sectors, as well as the social meanings money itself acquires and the ways people distinguish between "dirty" and "clean" money. This accessible and engaging book will be essential reading for upper-level students of economic sociology, and those interested in how the bills, coins and plastic in our pockets shape the world we live in.