Bell, Stephanie; Henry, John - In: Review of Social Economy 59 (2001) 2, pp. 203-226
This paper attempts to specify theoretically the origins of money. Rather than the exchange-based view of neoclassical … economists where money is seen as a transaction cost-reducing instrument (and where exchange itself is asserted to be a universal … phenomenon), we argue that money is a social relationship, specifically a debt relationship, that emerges with propertied, class …