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Recent decades of financialisation have seen a significant growth in art that mobilises various forms of money as … artistic media. These range from the integration of material money (coins, bills, credit cards) into aesthetic processes, such … with money: crass opportunism; a stark revelation of money's power; a coy play with art's subjugation to money; and a more …
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This article explores some aspects of money as a social relation. Starting from Polanyi, it explores the nature of … money as a non-commodity, real commodity, quasi-commodity, and fictitious commodity. The development of credit …-debt relations is important in the last respect, especially in market economies where money in the form of coins and banknotes plays …
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Recently parallels have been drawn between Bitcoin and Yapese stone money. This article focuses on Fitzpatrick and … McKeon's (2019) exploration of similarities and differences. The analogy between Bitcoin and Yapese stone money is based on … Yapese stone money using terminology from the field of cryptocurrency reproduces a longer textual history in which writers …
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Stephen Dunne recently sat down with Ole Bjerg to chair a discussion about his new book Making Money: The Philosophy of …
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This article argues that the problematic nature of money's 'location' is important to opening up its more fundamental … ontology. Using examples from recent financial crises, I explore the (temporary) historical relationship between money and the … nation state, the changing nature of money, and the paradoxes these produce in a world convinced that money is real and …
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occurring at the incorrect scale. Rather than being some form of trans-national digital money to be used alongside or compete … with national fiat currencies, I argue that, instead, each cryptocurrency represents its own self-contained "money …
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structuring principle of the circulation of value, capital, and money today. Accordingly, we should no longer just think of class … determined by one's position relative to the production of money. This also means that a contemporary idea of revolution is a … matter of radical change in the way that money comes into being. …
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There is no proper place within economic thought for the void. It appears nowhere in the canonical texts of political economy, let alone the discourse of conventional economics. Yet one cannot shake the sense that it is implied in most if not all financial commentary. At the very least, the void...
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This paper studies the joint business cycle dynamics of inflation, money growth, nominal and real interest rates and the … velocity of money. I extend and estimate a standard cash and credit monetary model by adding idiosyncratic preference shocks to …
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Using the 2015 introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany as a quasi-experiment, I investigate the effects of wage increases on personality. The degree to which each worker's wage is intended to be affected by the reform is used as an instrument for the relative increase in the worker's...
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