Money in a human economy / edited by Keith Hart.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Money in a human economy ; Capitalism and our moment in the history of money / Keith Hart -- Thinking about money. Money is good to think : from "wants of the mind" to conversation, stories, and accounts / Jane Guyer ; The shadow of Aristotle : a history of ideas about the origins of money / Joseph Noko ; Luxury and the sexual economy of capitalism / Noam Yuran -- The evolution of money today. The future of money is shaped by the family practices of the global south / Supriya Singh -- Remittance securitization in the hemisphere of the Am�ericas : from Wall Street to Calle Principal and back / David Pedersen ; Cross-border investment in China / Horacio Ortiz ; Value transfer and rent : or, I didn't realize my payment was your annuity / Bill Maurer ; Bitcoin as politics / Nigel Dodd -- Money in its time and place. A South Asian mercantile model of exchange : hundi during British rule / Marina Martin ; Money and markets for and against the people : the rise and fall of Basotho's economic independence, 1830s-1930s / Sean Maliehe ; Gender and money in the Argentinian trueque / Hadrien Saiag ; An imaginary currency : the Hatian dollar / Federico Neibourg -- Index.

Alongside existent debates between state and market theories of money, this volume explores people's struggles and potential to make money to suit themselves, spanning local case studies and emergent world economies to construct a framework of the 'human economy'. Contributors to this volume attempt to think about money as a category of thought, offer theories on luxury and sex in capitalist development, and follow the evolution of money today from the role of the global South in shaping its future, to cross-border investment in China, to Bitcoin as politics. "Money in a Human Economy" offers multiple perspectives on capital's central role in the formation of world society, as well as in the shaping of its current discontents.