What Money Wants - An Economy of Desire

Zusatztext "Noam Yuran's brilliant book offers a new point of view about the relationship between money and the desire for it. Arguing that desire is built into the nature of money and is not an external attachment to it! Yuran opens up new readings of Marx! Veblen! and Weber! and also gives readers a new perspective on the ways in which money can inspire excess and destabilize economies. This book will be of great interest to economists! philosophers! and social theorists." Informationen zum Autor Noam Yuran is a lecturer at the College of Academic Management Studies in Israel and a research fellow at the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University. Klappentext Based on the works of Marx, Veblen and Weber, and in stark contrast to mainstream economics, this book presents a view of money as an object of desire. Zusammenfassung Based on the works of Marx, Veblen and Weber, and in stark contrast to mainstream economics, this book presents a view of money as an object of desire.

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• Authors: Keith Hart, Noam Yuran, Noam Hart Yuran, Noam/ Hart Yuran
• Assisted by: Keith Hart (Foreword)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2014
• EAN: 9780804785921
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-8592-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories