Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the
global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it, there are more forms and …

This paper investigates how such a trivial device as a shopping cart may surprisingly
contribute to shaping exchanges in supermarkets. First, the shopping cart completely …

An argument that conceiving of economic value as a social force makes it possible to
develop a new and more powerful theory of market behavior. With the advent of the 2007 …

The book explores the promotion of Europeanness, which aims to arouse feelings of
belonging to the European Union. It demonstrates that the promotion of Europeanness at the …

Various examples of complementary currencies have recently emerged in Europe in
response to the impact of the 2007 financial crisis. They have been variously labelled as …

Publisher Summary Local monies, legal tenders, the euro, migrant remittances, trust
networks, nationalism, and citizenship display some unexpected common properties …

The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies, to Jeremy Rifkin's (2000) The Age of Access:
The New Culture of Hypercapitalism Where All of Life is a Paid-For Experience, social critics …

Aujourd'hui beaucoup d'anthropologues «sont de plus en plus persuadés qu'il n'existe pas
de société qui ignore la monnaie»(Rospabé, 1995, 24). Ainsi, par exemple, les conceptions …

Dans cet ouvrage, Bruno Frère montre comment l'imaginaire associationniste de l'économie
qualifiée aujourd'hui de" solidaire" plonge ses racines profondes dans les mouvements et …

Change in the Industrial Revolution(1959) concerns English cotton workers' provisions for
savings and security. In the heyday of cottage textile production, according to Smelser, the …