In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglectedtraditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the'social relation' of money.
* Genuinely multidisciplinary approach, based on a thoroughknowledge of theories of money in the social sciences
* An original development of the neglected heterodox theories ofmoney
* New histories of the origins and development of forms of moneyand their social relations of production in different monetarysystems
* A radical interpretation of capitalism as a particular type ofmonetary system and the first sociological outline of theinstitutional structure of the social production of capitalistmoney
* A radical critique of recent writing on global e-money, theso-called 'end of money', and new monetary spaces suchas the euro.
