In the modern lexicon, money is pure instrumentality, a colorless medium that transparently expresses real value. Contrary to that trope, however, we can get “inside” money: we can reconnoiter it as a structure entailing value that is engineered by certain societies. Taking a...

The modern approach to the market as a place with autonomy depends on a certain view of money. According to that view, money is a neutral technology that expresses individual choices made about real goods and services. But the controversies over money that regularly arise in political...

The most influential religions in the public arena of the modern age have been secular religions such as Marxism, the American progressive “gospel of efficiency,” and more recently environmentalism. Environmentalism is a revealing exception but modern secular religions have typically been...

Russian Abstract: В работе показана тесная связь учетных практик, обеспечивающих прозрачность в обществе, с эволюцией визуального в культуре (объектов, предполагающие...

Post-purchase consumer regret includes outcome regret and process regret. The aim of present study was to examine relationships between consumer regret, as indexed by the Post-Purchase Consumer Regret Scale (PPCR scale), attentional, motor and non-planning impulsivity, as measured by the Barratt...

The argument of this paper is that trade is an important causal factor for the origins of social complexity, not just a co-evolutionary process. Ancient trade has played a crucial role for the origins of the first state level society (Early Uruk) and was a premise for social complexity between...

Do you believe that at Christmas time the gas prices, the economy and the number of suicides peak? Do you think that the value of presents you are giving to your beloved is of importance? We show in this paper that conventional wisdom about Christmas is often doubtful. Furthermore, we give an...

Post-purchase consumer regret includes outcome regret and process regret. The aim of present study was to examine relationships between consumer regret, as indexed by the Post-Purchase Consumer Regret Scale (PPCR scale), attentional, motor and non-planning impulsivity, as measured by the Barratt...

The formal precision of modern economics, with its theoretical abstraction, its mathematical analytics and its reliance on disinterested scientific method in testing hypotheses about how economic system behave, might suggest that economics as a discipline does not have a cultural context, that...

This chapter summarizes the case for considering money as a legal institution. The Western liberal tradition, represented here by John Locke’s iconic account of money, describes money as an item that emerged from barter before the state existed. Considered as an historical practice, money is...