Money Talks Bandelj, Nina; Wherry, Frederick F; Zelizer, Viviana A
2017, 2017., 20170425, 2017-04-25
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The world of money is being transformed as households and organizations face changing economies, and new currencies and payment systems like Bitcoin and Apple Pay gain ground. What is money, and how ...do we make sense of it?Money Talksis the first book to offer a wide range of alternative and unexpected explanations of how social relations, emotions, moral concerns, and institutions shape how we create, mark, and use money. This collection brings together a stellar group of international experts from multiple disciplines-sociology, economics, history, law, anthropology, political science, and philosophy-to propose fresh explanations for money's origins, uses, effects, and future.
Money Talksexplores five key questions: How do social relationships, emotions, and morals shape how people account for and use their money? How do corporations infuse social meaning into their financing and investment practices? What are the historical, political, and social foundations of currencies? When does money become contested, and are there things money shouldn't buy? What is the impact of the new twenty-first-century currencies on our social relations?
At a time of growing concern over financial inequality,Money Talksoverturns conventional views about money by revealing its profound social potential.
Currency Power Cohen, Benjamin J
2015, 2015., 20150901, 2015-09-01
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Overview: Monetary rivalry is a fact of life in the world economy. Intense competition between international currencies like the US dollar, Europe's euro, and the Chinese yuan is profoundly ...political, going to the heart of the global balance of power. But what exactly is the relationship between currency and power, and what does it portend for the geopolitical standing of the United States, Europe, and China? Popular opinion holds that the days of the dollar, long the world's dominant currency, are numbered. By contrast, Currency Power argues that the current monetary rivalry still greatly favors America's greenback. Benjamin Cohen shows why neither the euro nor the yuan will supplant the dollar at the top of the global currency hierarchy. Cohen presents an innovative analysis of currency power and emphasizes the importance of separating out the various roles that international money might have. After systematically exploring the links between currency internationalization and state power, Cohen turns to the state of play among today's top currencies. The greenback, he contends, is the "indispensable currency"--The one that the world can't do without. Only the dollar is backed by all the economic and political resources that make a currency powerful. Meanwhile, the euro is severely handicapped by structural defects in the design of its governance mechanisms, and the yuan suffers from various practical limitations in both finance and politics. Contrary to today's growing opinion, Currency Power demonstrates that the dollar will continue to be the leading global currency for some time to come.
Introducción. En personas con Enfermedad Pulmonar Obstructiva Crónica (EPOC), la desnutrición es una comorbilidad frecuente, impactando la capacidad funcional y calidad de vida. El objetivo de este ...estudio fue analizar el cambio parámetros antropométricos en adultos mayores con bajo peso y desnutrición que participaron en un programa de EPOC de un centro de cuidado primario ambulatorio entre 2015 y 2021. Diseño. Estudio cohorte retrospectivo. Métodos. Población de adultos mayores atendidos en un programa de EPOC. Se analizaron 82 pacientes con bajo peso y desnutrición. Para las variables cualitativas se aplicó estadística descriptiva y para la determinación de modificación de medidas antropométricas se compararon las medias (inicial y a los doce meses) mediante prueba T student y coeficiente de correlación Pearson. Resultados. La mayoría hombres (67.1%), distribuidos según severidad de EPOC como grave (50%), muy grave (18.3%) y sin clasificar (31.7%). Según Índice de Masa Corporal en la valoración inicial, el 87.7% se encontraba en rango de bajo peso, 4.9% desnutrición leve, 2.5% desnutrición moderada y 4.9% desnutrición severa. A los 12 meses el 79.3% se encontraba en bajo peso, 8.5% normopeso, 6.1% desnutrición leve, 3.6% desnutrición moderada y 2.5% desnutrición severa. Se encontró una mejoría significativa del perímetro de la pantorrilla en hombres (perímetro <32 cm 89.1% al inicio versus 83.6% a 12 meses; Coeficiente correlación Pearson: 0.88, T student: 0.009 IC 95%). 86.6% de los pacientes no presentaron exacerbaciones y 79.3% no tuvieron hospitalizaciones durante el seguimiento. Conclusiones. Un porcentaje importante de pacientes llegaron al normopeso y tuvieron aumento en el perímetro de la pantorrilla, resaltando la importancia de un abordaje nutricional en el proceso de rehabilitación de pacientes desnutridos con EPOC, mejorando la fuerza de los músculos respiratorios, la capacidad física, el control de la enfermedad, acorde con los hallazgos sobre baja frecuencia de exacerbaciones y hospitalizaciones.
What would a world without money look like? This book is a lively thought experiment that deepens our understanding of how money is the driver of political power, environmental destruction and social ...inequality today, arguing that it has to be abolished rather than repurposed to achieve a postcapitalist future. Grounded in historical debates about money, Anitra Nelson draws on a spectrum of political and economic thought and activism, including feminism, ecoanarchism, degrowth, permaculture, autonomism, Marxism and ecosocialism. Looking to Indigenous rights activism and the defence of commons, an international network of activists engaged in a fight for a money-free society emerges. Beyond Money shows that, by organising around post-money versions of the future, activists have a hope of creating a world that embodies their radical values and visions.
Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: "The long-awaited monetary ...history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly achievement--monumental in its sheer bulk, monumental in the definitiveness of its treatment of innumerable issues, large and small . . . monumental, above all, in the theoretical and statistical effort and ingenuity that have been brought to bear on the solution of complex and subtle economic issues."
Friedman and Schwartz marshaled massive historical data and sharp analytics to support the claim that monetary policy--steady control of the money supply--matters profoundly in the management of the nation's economy, especially in navigating serious economic fluctuations. In their influential chapter 7,The Great Contraction--which Princeton published in 1965 as a separate paperback--they address the central economic event of the century, the Depression. According to Hugh Rockoff, writing in January 1965: "If Great Depressions could be prevented through timely actions by the monetary authority (or by a monetary rule), as Friedman and Schwartz had contended, then the case for market economies was measurably stronger."
Milton Friedman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2000 for work related toA Monetary Historyas well as to his other Princeton University Press book,A Theory of the Consumption Function(1957).
This book was the first to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds. It uses new approaches in economic history to ...explore how money affected the economy in antiquity and demonstrates that the crucial factors in its increasing influence were state-formation, expanding political networks, metal supply and above all an increasing sophistication of credit and contractual law. Covering a wide range of monetary contexts within the Mediterranean over almost a thousand years (c.600 BC–AD 300), it demonstrates that money played different roles in different social and political circumstances. The book will prove an invaluable introduction to upper-level students of ancient money, while also offering perspectives for future research to the specialist.
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