In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected
traditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the
‘social relation’ of money.
* Genuinely multidisciplinary approach, based on a thorough
knowledge of theories of money in the social sciences
* An original development of the neglected heterodox theories of
money
* New histories of the origins and development of forms of money
and their social relations of production in different monetary
systems
* A radical interpretation of capitalism as a particular type of
monetary system and the first sociological outline of the
institutional structure of the social production of capitalist
money
* A radical critique of recent writing on global e-money, the
so-called ‘end of money’, and new monetary spaces such
as the euro.
Table of Content
Preface.
PART I. CONCEPTS AND THEORIES.
Introduction.
1. Money as a Commodity and ‘Neural’ Symbol of
Commodities.
2. Abstract Value, Credit and the State.
3. Money in Sociological Theory.
4. Fundamentals of a Theory of Money.
PART II. HISTORY AND ANALYSIS.
5. The Historical Origins of Money and its Pre-capitalist
Forms.
6. The Development of Capitalist Credit-Money.
7. The Production of Capitalist Crefit-Money.
8. Monetary Disorder.
9. New Monetary Spaces.
Concluding Remarks.
Notes.
References.
Index.
About the author
Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Cambridge
