Geoffrey Ingham 
The Nature of Money 

In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected
traditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the
‘social relation’ of money.

* Genuinely multidisciplinary approach, based on a thorough
knowledge of theories of money in the social sciences

* An original development of the neglected heterodox theories of
money

* New histories of the origins and development of forms of money
and their social relations of production in different monetary
systems

* A radical interpretation of capitalism as a particular type of
monetary system and the first sociological outline of the
institutional structure of the social production of capitalist
money

* A radical critique of recent writing on global e-money, the
so-called ‘end of money’, and new monetary spaces such
as the euro.

Table of Content

Preface.

PART I. CONCEPTS AND THEORIES.

Introduction.

1. Money as a Commodity and ‘Neural’ Symbol of
Commodities.

2. Abstract Value, Credit and the State.

3. Money in Sociological Theory.

4. Fundamentals of a Theory of Money.

PART II. HISTORY AND ANALYSIS.

5. The Historical Origins of Money and its Pre-capitalist
Forms.

6. The Development of Capitalist Credit-Money.

7. The Production of Capitalist Crefit-Money.

8. Monetary Disorder.

9. New Monetary Spaces.

Concluding Remarks.

Notes.

References.

Index.

About the author

Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Cambridge