The Social Meaning Of Money($65.92Value)

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A distinguished social scientist shows what money really does for us—and to us. The book describes how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendship and family relations, and otherwise differentiating the process by which spending and saving takes place. A distinguished social scientist and prizewinning author reveals in fascinating detail what money really does for--and to--us.