Hard cash, easy credit, fictitious capital: Critical reflections on money as a fetishised social relation
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 econ...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Finance and Society |
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| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2059599900000042/type/journal_article |