Money is a social invention that goes far back into human history; its trace can be found in most societies, however constituted and organised, and whether or not they form states. It is not a specific feature either of modern capitalist societies or of the way the West evolved towards that...

This book endeavours to throw light on the phenomenon of money in general in an essentially comparative and therefore concrete way and not from a universalist, dogmatic and abstract standpoint. To do this, it apprehends monetary relations within the particular society to which they belong.

When analysing any social phenomenon, encounters among different social science disciplines and fields of investigation dispersed over time and space may well produce illusory rapprochements. Such encounters nevertheless have great potential for producing truly common knowledge. In matters of...

Chapter 1. Introduction to the English Edition -- Chapter 2. The Violence of Money (excerpt) -- Chapter 3. Enhancing the Political Economy of Money through History -- Chapter 4. Collective Introduction to La Monnaie souveraine -- Chapter 5. The Monetary Order of Market Economies -- chapter 6....

In this article, the universalist economic model of homo ?conomicus put down by the presently dominant economics is considered as making sense mainly in the individualist Anglo-American mental, juridical and ethical universe. Therefore the present crisis of the euro can be understood as the...

This book gathers several important texts and offers a general overview of the institutionalist approach to money developed in France since the 1980s.These texts highlight the specificities of the French monetary approaches and display their main contributions to the understanding of monetary...