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On money as a conventional sign: Revisiting Aristotle’s conception of money
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-06)
Regardless of the historical evolution of money, some passages of Aristotle's works shed light on its meaning and nature. This paper will attentively consider these passages. The first section presents Aristotle's thoughts ...
The Moral Power of Money Morality and Economy in the Life of the Poor
(Stanford University Press, 2017)
Looking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money investigates the forces of power and morality at play, particularly among the poor. Drawing on fieldwork in a slum of Buenos ...
Money talks?: Secrecy and money management in the family affective bonds of women who perform sex commerce in Argentina
(Routledge, 2019)
Family, even with its historical transformations, has been in charge of controlling and administering domesticity, sexualities, and finances, making family bonds a key dimension to consider in the discourses of women who ...
Community and money: An Approach from Moral Sociology
(De Gruyter, 2016)
In the 19th century, sociologists presented money in opposition to community bonds. In the classic text by Ferdinand Tönnies Community and Society- from 1887, money plays a key role in the connections among society in ...
An Incursion Into the Reality of Money Transfer Programs in Brazil and Argentina: 2016-2021
(International Journal of Development Research, 2021-11)
The article referenced in results of several empirical, documental and bibliographical research studies about money transfer programs developed under the coordination and with the participation of the authors, discusses ...
Property, freedom and money: Modern Capitalism reassessed
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2016-04)
Large exchange markets, big money, interest-bearing credit, big landholdings, proletarian masses, imperial expansion and even ‘capital’ or ‘salaried workers’, are not in themselves specific, unique institutional features ...
Panmen Plea for Early Prize Money
(Trinidad Guardian, 14-Nov-96)
The steelband fraternity is calling on corporate sponsors to make payments of prize money available to competitions winners as early as possible after events are completed.
Silvio Gesell's vision on monetary reform: how to reduce social inequalities
(Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2020)
The presentwork addresses the proposal of Silvio Gesell to reduce social inequalities byimplementing a monetary and land reform. We show how Gesell adhered to eugenicideas, widespread at the time, and how this influenced ...
Money mining: technology diffusion and transactions validation
(2020-05-27)
We develop a continuous-time Lagos-Wright model to study private and decentralised money production with a time-consuming mining technology and with a diffusion process for this technology. There exists a unique equilibrium ...