The Real Meaning of Money
Author | : Dorothy Rowe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Money |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Dorothy Rowe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Money |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dorothy Rowe |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2012-06-28 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0007400047 |
‘A very important book about one of the last social taboos – with fascinating implications for us all’ Helena Kennedy, QC
Author | : Jacob Needleman |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1994-09-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0385262426 |
If we understood the true role of money in our lives, writes philosopher Jacob Needleman, we would not think simply in terms of spending it or saving it. Money exerts a deep emotional influence on who we are and what we tell ourselves we can never have. Our long unwillingness to understand the emotional and spiritual effects of money on us is at the heart of why we have come to know the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Money has everything to do with the pursuit of an idealistic life, while at the same time, it is at the root of our daily frustrations. On a social level, money has a profound impact on the price of progress. Needleman shows how money slowly began to haunt us, from the invention of coins in Biblical times (when money was created to rescue the community good, not for self gain), through its hypnotic appeal in our money-obsessed era. This is a remarkable book that combines myth and psychology, the poetry of the Sufis and the wisdom of King Solomon, along with Jacob Needleman's searching of his own soul and his culture to explain how money can become a unique means of self-knowledge. As part of the Currency paperback line, it includes a "User's Guide" an introduction and discussion guide created for the paperback by the author -- to help readers make practical use of the book's ideas.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1134 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Accounting |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anders Pettersson |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2017-04-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027266018 |
In his account of text and textual meaning, Pettersson demonstrates that a text as commonly conceived is not only a verbal structure but also a physical entity, two kinds of phenomena which do not in fact add up to a unitary object. He describes this current notion of text as convenient enough for many practical purposes, but inadequate in discussions of a theoretically more demanding nature. Having clearly demonstrated its intellectual drawbacks, he develops an alternative, boldly revisionary way of thinking about text and textual meaning. His careful argument is in challenging dialogue with assumptions about language-in-use to be found in a wide range of present-day literary theory, linguistics, philosophical aesthetics, and philosophy of language.
Author | : Morgan Housel |
Publisher | : Harriman House Limited |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2020-09-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 085719769X |
Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money—investing, personal finance, and business decisions—is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.
Author | : Viviana A. Zelizer |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2021-09-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 069123700X |
A dollar is a dollar—or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing relations to cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money. Or is it? Distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author Viviana Zelizer argues against this conventional wisdom. She shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendship and family relations, and otherwise varying the process by which spending and saving takes place. Zelizer concentrates on domestic transactions, bestowals of gifts and charitable donations in order to show how individuals, families, governments, and businesses have all prescribed social meaning to money in ways previously unimagined.
Author | : Stephen J. Grabill |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2007-11-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0739161148 |
The Sourcebook is a thematically unified collection of seminal texts in the history of economics on the topic of money and exchange relations (cambium)_its nature, purpose, value, and relationship to justice and morality in financial transactions_within the tradition of late-scholastic commercial ethics.
Author | : Enrique Dussel |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2024-04-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1478027908 |
In The Theological Metaphors of Marx, Enrique Dussel provides a groundbreaking combination of Marxology, theology, and ethical theory. Dussel shows that Marx unveils the theology of capitalism in his critique of commodity fetishization. Capitalism constitutes an idolatry of the commodity that undergirds the capitalist expropriation of labor. Dussel examines Marx’s early writings on religion and fetishism and proceeds through what Dussel refers to as the four major drafts of Capital, ultimately situating Marx’s philosophical, economic, ethical, and historical insights in relation to the theological problems of his time. Dussel notes a shift in Marx’s underlying theological schema from a political critique of the state to an economic critique of the commodity fetish as the Devil, or anti-God, of modernity. Marx’s thought, impact, and influence cannot be fully understood without Dussel’s historic reinterpretation of the theological origins and implications of Marx’s critiques of political economy and politics.
Author | : Anne DeWitt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2013-07-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 110724515X |
Nineteenth-century men of science aligned scientific practice with moral excellence as part of an endeavor to secure cultural authority for their discipline. Anne DeWitt examines how novelists from Elizabeth Gaskell to H. G. Wells responded to this alignment. Revising the widespread assumption that Victorian science and literature were part of one culture, she argues that the professionalization of science prompted novelists to deny that science offered widely accessible moral benefits. Instead, they represented the narrow aspirations of the professional as morally detrimental while they asserted that moral concerns were the novel's own domain of professional expertise. This book draws on works of natural theology, popular lectures, and debates from the pages of periodicals to delineate changes in the status of science and to show how both familiar and neglected works of Victorian fiction sought to redefine the relationship between science and the novel.