![]() ![]() Whether we know it or not, these layers of crisis have come to define the way we look at money, and they continue to reverberate today. What ties the moments together, he argues, is a set of recurring concerns with monetary politics that unfold as a conversation across time, constantly offering revisionist assessments of prior crises. ![]() Showing the ways in which money is an inherently political institution, Eich examines six key moments of monetary crisis and the political reflection they elicited, from Aristotle and the invention of coinage to the "Great Inflation" of the 1970s and the subsequent disappearance of discussions of money from political theory. The currency of politics : the political theory of money from Aristotle to Keynes Author: Stefan Eich (Author) Summary: 'The financial crisis of 2008 prompted a renewed critical interest in the moral limits and the sense of justice inherent in the market economy. In The Currency of Politics, political theorist Stefan Eich responds to this blind-spot by offering an intellectual history of money, as the concept was developed over time through the insight of some key political philosophers. But while the valuable pursuits of political theorists have enabled them to speak more directly to the economic dimension of our lives, they only rarely touch on the political roots of the central institution of all market economies-money. Summary: "The financial crisis of 2008 prompted a renewed critical interest in the moral limits and the sense of justice inherent in the market economy. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |