Euro and Its Rivals - Currency and the Construction of a Transnational City

Informationen zum Autor Gustav Peebles is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Social Sciences in the Bachelor's Program at The New School in New York City. His work has appeared in Harper's Magazine and other publications. Klappentext The Euro and Its Rivals provides a deep historical study of the welfare state and the monetary policies and utopian visions that helped to ground it, at the same time shedding new light on the contemporary movement of goods, people, credit, and debt. Zusammenfassung Currency and culture in a European border zone Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction 1. Imagining Utopia, Constructing Øresund: From the Nation-State to the Region 2. The Arts of 'Scientific' Money: Monetary Policy as Moral Policy 3. Receipts and Deceits: Currency Regulation, Black Markets and Borders 4. The Mark of Money: Regulating the Flow of Subjects 5. Indebted Communities Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Gustav Peebles, Peebles Gustav
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2011
• EAN: 9780253223203
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22320-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 231 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Indiana University Press; New Anthropologies of Europe; New Anthropologies of Europe; New Anthropologies of Europe (
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics