In much of the anthropological record of money, scholars have rehearsed a distinction between modern money and primitive money…
In this post, I’d like to discuss the section on violence in Nigel Dodd’s (2014) first chapter on the origins of money. This section basically discusses the works of Michel Aglietta and Andre…
Simmel’s Quantification
In my readings in the anthropology and sociology of money, two figures have often stood out against whom…
The 2008 economic downturn, alongside broad-scale information and communication technologies have led to a proliferation of imagination…
Nigel Dodd’s (2014) first chapter presents several challenges and I would like to suggest a framework that can help us understand him more clearly…
