Money in an Unequal World : Keith Hart and His Memory Bank,9781587990755

Money in an Unequal World : Keith Hart and His Memory Bank

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ISBN13: 9781587990755
ISBN10: 158799075X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-05-17
Publisher(s): Texere
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Summary

The author offers a new view on the interaction between money, capitalism, and culture -- now, in the future, and throughout history. This insightful new book will challenge established views from all quarters of economic, political, and social thought. The Memory Bank is money itself -- especially now that the exchange of objects through money and the exchange of meanings through language are converging into a single network of communications. Money is becoming information and information is becoming money. In this world, Hart reveals, new means of exchange could be harnessed to build a better future.

Author Biography

Keith Hart holds a research post at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures
vii
Prologue: Alvin ix
Introduction 1(2)
Money in the Making of Humanity
3(26)
On money, machines and the market
5(5)
At home in the world
10(5)
Reading this memory bank
15(8)
Guide to further reading
23(1)
Notes
24(5)
PART I: MONEY AND MACHINES 29(146)
The Machine Revolution Today
31(42)
A civilization built on machines
33(7)
In the long run: The age of mechanization
40(7)
The origins of the communications revolution
47(9)
The birth of the Internet
56(5)
Between agrarian civilization and the machine revolution
61(7)
Guide to further reading
68(1)
Notes
69(4)
Capitalism: Making Money with Money
73(46)
The age of money
76(6)
The theory of capitalism
82(9)
The ongoing origins of capitalism
91(5)
The personal face of capitalism: Entrepreneurs
96(16)
Guide to further reading
112(2)
Notes
114(5)
Capitalism: The Political Economy of Development
119(56)
The twentieth century
123(7)
The development of global inequality
130(15)
State capitalism and the informal economy
145(12)
Virtual capitalism
157(7)
The political economy of the Internet
164(4)
Guide to further reading
168(1)
Notes
169(6)
PART II: MONEY AND THE MARKET 175(154)
The Market from a Humanist Point of View
177(56)
The market, private property and liberal democracy
180(6)
The anthropological critique of economic individualism
186(13)
Market relations in time and space
199(7)
The moral economy of paid and unpaid labor
206(8)
Changing economic relations between men and women
214(8)
Beyond wage slavery?
222(4)
Guide to further reading
226(1)
Notes
227(6)
The Changing Character of Money
233(62)
The history of the money form
235(10)
Heads or tails? Two sides of the coin
245(10)
The meaning of money
255(9)
Money: Whence it came and whither it went
264(8)
Money in the age of the Internet
272(13)
Guide to further reading
285(2)
Notes
287(8)
The Future of Money and the Market
295(34)
Making money, making scenarios
295(6)
The old regime and the middle-class revolution
301(9)
People's money: beyond economic coercion
310(9)
Building economic infrastructure for the coming century
319(4)
Guide to further reading
323(1)
Notes
324(5)
Acknowledgments 329(2)
Index of Names 331(4)
General Index 335

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