Cultures Of Currencies

Author : Joan Ramon Resina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000543209

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Cultures of Currencies by Joan Ramon Resina Pdf

This book’s premise is not only the commonly accepted cultural relativity of economic concepts, but also the observation that the current shift in the meaning of concepts like “market,” “currency,” “exchange,” and “money” suggests that culture is undergoing a change with unpredictable economic and political consequences. The essays in the book raise basic questions concerning exchange – what is exchanged, who exchanges and how, which kind of currency is used, and indeed what is money and how does it convey and retain value over time. These issues are all classical objects of economic theory, but less often have they been approached from a cultural perspective. Works treating economic and monetary issues from a cultural perspective are few and far apart, and this book aims to contribute to such a perspective with a variety of approaches.

Author : Noel Mark Noël
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781527529380

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Currencies and Cultures by Noel Mark Noël Pdf

Why cultures are different can be examined through the multifaceted lens of their currencies, their economic policies, and the very foundations of how money works. Anyone who has traveled abroad immediately senses the cultural differences, even before learning about the language, politics, or history of the people. The tourist is promptly faced with strangely priced goods and services, an unknown currency of dubious value, and an alien system of payment, trade, and exchange. An investigation into the origins and evolution of money explains much about the behavior of people and their culture. The collection of coins and money often begins with an inquiry into the history of a currency and other payment media used to resolve debts and exchange goods. Coin collecting can lead to a compelling interest in the study of cultural differences as numismatists have come to appreciate the semantic connection between numisma (coinage) and nomos (customs) with nonos (laws). Those interested in economics and business would find, through the study of numismatics, a wealth of information—the equivalent of a life-long education—not only in the study of coins and currencies, but also about people and their history. Culture is defined by the values, norms, and beliefs shared among its members and supported by its cultural institutions. A symbiotic relationship exists between a currency and its culture and society. The extent to which cultural institutions encourage and reinforce their economic foundations indicates the degree of a culture’s success or failure. This book offers insights into how cultural institutions can strengthen their citizens’ values and beliefs with that of their currency, and enhance the process of trade and exchange for the betterment and prosperity of its people. The Latin phrase “cui bono?” translates into “to whose profit or advantage?” Currencies and Cultures reexamines and challenges our current understanding of economic history—and provides insights into human behavior by following the money.

Author : Leon Wansleben
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135037413

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Cultures of Expertise in Global Currency Markets by Leon Wansleben Pdf

Notwithstanding financial crises, global foreign exchange markets have undergone a tremendous growth during the last two decades. Foreign exchange (FX) is often thought of as a site where economic actors exchange currencies for buying foreign goods or selling goods in foreign countries, but the FX markets are better understood as financial spheres, dominated by speculative actors. A key question is how this huge global speculative sphere has developed, and what maintains it. Thus far, global currency markets have been largely neglected by the new approaches to finance, and until now no study has existed to chart the interplay of their structural evolution and their shape as knowledge spheres. This new book offers a systematic study of FX markets from a knowledge sociological perspective, empirically focussing on analysts within these markets. It makes the argument that market structures are reflected in, and become stabilised by, distinct cultures of financial expertise. These cultures connect the actions and perceptions of loosely coupled, globally distributed market players, and establish shared sets of strategies of how to observe, valuate and invest. This highly original book will be of interest to scholars of economics, sociology and political science, and in particular to all those with an interest in the sociology of finance and the role of finance in the contemporary world.

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350253544

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A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Empire by Bloomsbury Publishing Pdf

The nineteenth century was a time of intense monetization of social life: increasingly money became the only means of access to goods and services, especially in the new metropolises; new technologies and infrastructures emerged for saving and circulating money and for standardizing coinage; and paper currencies were printed, founded purely on trust without any intrinsic metallic value. But the monetary landscape was ambivalent so that the forces unifying monetary practice (imperial and national currencies, global monetary standards such as the gold standard) coexisted with the proliferation of local currencies. Money became a central issue in politics, the arts, and sciences - and the modern discipline of economics was born, with its claim to a monopoly on knowing and governing money. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Empire presents essays that examine key cultural case studies of the period on the themes of technologies, ideas, ritual and religion, the everyday, art and representation, interpretation, and the issues of the age.

Author : John W. Houghton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Currency question
ISBN : 0367004216

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Culture and Currency by John W. Houghton Pdf

The aim of this book is to shed light on how people come to hold opposing views, how these views solidify into the sides of a debate and how one side becomes the dominant view. Why, as all have access to the same nature, physical and human, don't they come to the same conclusions? Or, if each individual is different, why don't they come to wholly different conclusions? A sociology of perception must explain both why the world resembles neither an epistemological Tower of Babel in which communication between individuals is impossible nor a homogenized blend in which communication is no longer necessary. t

Author : Endre Stiansen,Jane I. Guyer
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9171064427

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Credit, Currencies, and Culture by Endre Stiansen,Jane I. Guyer Pdf

A striking feature of African history is the volume of commerce and production that has been possible without the full panoply of credit, insurances, future markets, stock companies, limited liability, and other legal and financial services that make up the formal sector of modern economies. The contributions to this volume investigate institutional nexuses through which money has been managed in Africa. Together they present important perspectives that are needed to understand the present economic crisis on the continent.

Author : Leon Wansleben
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135037420

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Cultures of Expertise in Global Currency Markets by Leon Wansleben Pdf

Notwithstanding financial crises, global foreign exchange markets have undergone a tremendous growth during the last two decades. Foreign exchange (FX) is often thought of as a site where economic actors exchange currencies for buying foreign goods or selling goods in foreign countries, but the FX markets are better understood as financial spheres, dominated by speculative actors. A key question is how this huge global speculative sphere has developed, and what maintains it. Thus far, global currency markets have been largely neglected by the new approaches to finance, and until now no study has existed to chart the interplay of their structural evolution and their shape as knowledge spheres. This new book offers a systematic study of FX markets from a knowledge sociological perspective, empirically focussing on analysts within these markets. It makes the argument that market structures are reflected in, and become stabilised by, distinct cultures of financial expertise. These cultures connect the actions and perceptions of loosely coupled, globally distributed market players, and establish shared sets of strategies of how to observe, valuate and invest. This highly original book will be of interest to scholars of economics, sociology and political science, and in particular to all those with an interest in the sociology of finance and the role of finance in the contemporary world.

Author : John Houghton
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39076001300578

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Culture And Currency by John Houghton Pdf

An inquiry into the practical and theoretical implications of abandoning the gold standard during the Napoleonic Wars. It develops a cultural theory to explain the causes and consequences of seemingly irrational choices in setting the monetary policy of the times.

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350253490

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A Cultural History of Money in the Renaissance by Bloomsbury Publishing Pdf

In a time before large banking systems, and with paper money just in its infancy, money during the Renaissance meant coinage (mainly gold and silver) and local credit systems. These monetary forms had a significant influence on the ways in which money was understood throughout the period, and shaped discussions on such topics as the meaning of monetary value, the economic, political, religious, and aesthetic uses of coinage, the moral implications of usury and credit systems, and the importance of reputation, both at the state and individual levels. Crucial to the transformation of ideas about money in the period was the growing awareness that the individuals, up to and including the monarch, were powerless to overcome the market forces that determined value and directed the movement of goods and money. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, A Cultural History of Money in the Renaissance presents essays that examine key cultural case studies of the period on the themes of technologies, ideas, ritual and religion, the everyday, art and representation, interpretation, and the issues of the age.

Author : Jianbing Dai,Luqian Peng,Xiaorong Chen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527580596

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The Cultural Exchange History of Ancient Currency between China and Other Countries by Jianbing Dai,Luqian Peng,Xiaorong Chen Pdf

In the currency culture of human history, there are two wonderful works that are immortal. One is that of China, an ancient Oriental civilization, which has influenced the currency culture of many Asian countries for more than a thousand years. The other is the monetary culture of ancient Greece, the birthplace of western monetary culture, which later gave rise to the Arab and Indian coin systems. This book presents survey on Chinese ancient currency of all ages, before moving on to elaborate upon the history of currency culture exchange between China and other countries, such as ancient Greece and Rome, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Asia, Western and central Asia. It considers the influence of Chinese currency on the currency development of the neighboring Asian regions and countries, as well as the interaction between ancient Chinese coins and European and American coins in different periods.

Author : Cultural Currency Media
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1466466707

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Knowledge Transfer Cultural Currency by Cultural Currency Media Pdf

Cultural Currency is a delicate combination of art, experiences, how to, know how, symbols, lingo, historical facts and artifacts that can be creatively synthesized for economic sustainability. Knowledge Transfer Cultural Currency is a presentation about knowledge transfer and cultural currency.

Author : Sam Friedman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135009014

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Comedy and Distinction by Sam Friedman Pdf

This book was shortlisted for the 2015 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. Comedy is currently enjoying unprecedented growth within the British culture industries. Defying the recent economic downturn, it has exploded into a booming billion-pound industry both on TV and on the live circuit. Despite this, academia has either ignored comedy or focused solely on analysing comedians or comic texts. This scholarship tends to assume that through analysing an artist’s intentions or techniques, we can somehow understand what is and what isn’t funny. But this poses a fundamental question – funny to whom? How can we definitively discern how audiences react to comedy? Comedy and Distinction shifts the focus to provide the first ever empirical examination of British comedy taste. Drawing on a large-scale survey and in-depth interviews carried out at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the book explores what types of comedy people like (and dislike), what their preferences reveal about their sense of humour, how comedy taste lubricates everyday interaction, and how issues of social class, gender, ethnicity and geographical location interact with patterns of comic taste. Friedman asks: Are some types of comedy valued higher than others in British society? Does more ‘legitimate’ comedy taste act as a tangible resource in social life – a form of cultural capital? What role does humour play in policing class boundaries in contemporary Britain? This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, social class, social theory, cultural studies and comedy studies.

Author : Bill Maurer,Christine Desan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781474237390

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A Cultural History of Money by Bill Maurer,Christine Desan Pdf

The definitive overview of money in history, this unique scholarly work presents 4,500 years of money in culture.

Author : Jotham Parsons
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801454981

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Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France by Jotham Parsons Pdf

Coinage and currency—abstract and socially created units of value and power—were basic to early modern society. By controlling money, the people sought to understand and control their complex, expanding, and interdependent world. In Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France, Jotham Parsons investigates the creation and circulation of currency in France. The royal Cour des Monnaies centralized monetary administration, expanding its role in the emerging modern state during the sixteenth century and assuming new powers as an often controversial repository of theoretical and administrative expertise. The Cour des Monnaies, Parsons shows, played an important role in developing the contemporary understanding of money, as a source of both danger and opportunity at the center of economic and political life. More practically, the Monnaies led generally successful responses to the endemic inflation of the era and the monetary chaos of a period of civil war. Its work investigating and prosecuting counterfeiters shone light into a picaresque world of those who used the abstract and artificial nature of money for their own ends. Parsons’s broad, multidimensional portrait of money in early modern France also encompasses the literature of the age, in which money’s arbitrary and dangerous power was a major theme.

Author : Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz,Tara Czechowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 0404648649

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Global Economies, Cultural Currencies of the Eighteenth Century by Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz,Tara Czechowski Pdf