{"product_id":"money-nico-stehr-9780367354626","title":"Money: A Theory of Modern Society","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the publication of Georg Simmel's \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy of Money\u003c\/i\u003e more than a century ago, social science has primarily considered money a medium of exchange. This new book treats money as a more inclusive social concept that has profoundly influenced the emergence of modern society. Money is also a \u003ci\u003emoral and political category\u003c\/i\u003e. It communicates prices and thus embodies innumerable evaluations and judgments of objects and services, of social relationships and associations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, modern societies are undergoing fundamental transformations in which money assumes an ever-important role, while banking and financial services constitute the new primary sector of modern service economies. In this book, the authors trace the transformational scope of monetarization and financialization along the four classical productive forces--land, capital, labor, and knowledge--and evaluate the consequences of an irrepressible urge to quantify and monetarize almost everything social. What happens to a society in which the tangible products of the real economy lose their preeminent status, and everything is judged purely according to its \u003ci\u003eeconomic\u003c\/i\u003e value? The authors identify an increasing disconnect between market prices and social values with serious social, political, economic, and environmental consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nico Stehr,Dustin Voss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367354624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367354626\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Nico Stehr","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136001454335,"sku":"9780367354626","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_035cb575-fece-4a63-a961-d1331e7b5993.jpg?v=1770159853","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/money-nico-stehr-9780367354626","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}