TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lapavitsas,Costas
TI  - Social foundations of markets, money, and credit
T2  - Routledge frontiers of political economy
SN  - 041531805X
AV  - HB501 .L265 2003
U1  - 330.122 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Marxian economics
KW  - Money
KW  - Credit
KW  - Economics
KW  - Sociological aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-167) and index; Part 1; Commodities, Markets and Capital --; 1; Social Relations Underpinning Commodity Markets --; 2; Commodities and Gifts --; Part 2; Money and Credit --; 3; Money's Monopoly over the Ability to Buy --; 4; The Social Content of Credit Relations --; Part 3; Theoretical Approaches to the Social Relations Sustaining Markets and Money --; 5; Social Norms and Institutions in the Capitalist Economy --; 6; The Emergence and Functioning of Money --; 7; Money as Unit of Account and Means of Exchange in a Socialist Economy
N2  - "What is the difference between money and capitap? Is anti-globalization necessarily anti-money?These points and many more are debated and dealt with in a readable yet rigorous manner in this book. The work examines the case that the capitalist ecoomy is permeated with non-economic relations that flow from the exploitative relations of production. Lapavitas shows that markets have one aspect in common: money--and critically analyzes all aspects of this slippery concept.This snappy, well argued book will interest and inform students and researchers not only in economics, but also in sociology and anthropology. Well-informed critics of capitalism will also find it to be a tremondously useful read."--Publisher description
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