Money and Calculation [electronic resource] : Economic and Sociological Perspectives /
Amato, M.editor.
Doria, L.editor.
Fantacci, L.editor.
Money is an important instrument of calculation: as a unit of account and means of payment, it serves the purpose of exchange. Yet, it is increasingly becoming itself an object of exchange and calculation on financial markets, which tend less to the production and exchange of real goods. The question therefore is: has the economy lost its measure?
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on the Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Money Is the Scribe of a Market Economy; 3 Money without Value, Accounting without Measure: How Economic Theory Can Better Fit the Economic and Monetary System We Live; 4 Silence Is Gold: Some Preliminary Notes on Money, Speech and Calculation; 5 What Kind of Calculation Is Implied in the Money Rate of Interest?; 6 A Time and a Place for Everything: Foundations of Commodity Money; 7 Calculating Life and Money as Resources; 8 Repressed Futures: Financial Derivatives' Theological Unconscious
9 Representing and Modelling: The Case of Portfolio Management10 Brief Encounters: Calculation and the Interaction Order of Anonymous Electronic Markets; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Money is an important instrument of calculation: as a unit of account and means of payment, it serves the purpose of exchange. Yet, it is increasingly becoming itself an object of exchange and calculation on financial markets, which tend less to the production and exchange of real goods. The question therefore is: has the economy lost its measure?
Business enterprises—Finance.
Finance.
Management.
Economic theory.
Economic policy.
Investment banking.
Securities.
Business Finance.
Finance, general.
Management.
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.
Economic Policy.
Investments and Securities.