The Social Life of Money
The Social Life of Money
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金钱的社会生活
DOI：
10.5860/choice.188169
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2014
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N. Dodd
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在全球金融危机之后，有关货币本质的问题变得更加紧迫。尽管许多人拥有的货币较少，但货币的形式和体系却更多，从当地货币、社会借贷到移动货币和比特币。然而，我们对金钱的理解--以及它可能是什么--并没有跟上步伐。在《货币的社会生活》一书中，当今最重要的货币社会学家之一奈杰尔·多德重新阐述了后危机世界的货币主题理论，在这个世界里，新的货币种类激增。发行货币和制定政策的央行采取的合法行动是什么？是什么支撑了非政府组织创造新货币的权利？新形式的货币将如何超越或颠覆政府批准的货币？为了回答这些问题，《货币的社会生活》对现代货币理论进行了全新而广泛的审视。这本书的核心问题之一是，如何从银行和政府的统治和管理不善中夺回资金，并恢复其作为乔治·西梅尔所描述的“对社会的要求”的基本地位。但是，《货币的社会生活》并没有对以国家为基础的货币体系提出另一种批评，而是引出了货币的乌托邦方面，以及它的转变反过来可以如何改变社会、政治和经济。这本书还确认了以前没有被认为是货币理论家的思想家的贡献-包括尼采、本杰明、巴塔耶、德勒兹和瓜塔里、鲍德里亚、德里达以及哈特和内格里。这一结果提供了思考金钱的新方法，不仅试图理解它，而且试图改变它。
Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it, there are more forms and systems of money, from local currencies and social lending to mobile money and Bitcoin. Yet our understanding of what money is—and what it might be—hasn’t kept pace. In The Social Life of Money, Nigel Dodd, one of today’s leading sociologists of money, reformulates the theory of the subject for a postcrisis world in which new kinds of money are proliferating. What counts as legitimate action by central banks that issue currency and set policy? What underpins the right of nongovernmental actors to create new currencies? And how might new forms of money surpass or subvert government-sanctioned currencies? To answer such questions, The Social Life of Money takes a fresh and wide-ranging look at modern theories of money. One of the book’s central concerns is how money can be wrested from the domination and mismanagement of banks and governments and restored to its fundamental position as the “claim upon society” described by Georg Simmel. But rather than advancing yet another critique of the state-based monetary system, The Social Life of Money draws out the utopian aspects of money and the ways in which its transformation could in turn transform society, politics, and economics. The book also identifies the contributions of thinkers who have not previously been thought of as monetary theorists—including Nietzsche, Benjamin, Bataille, Deleuze and Guattari, Baudrillard, Derrida, and Hardt and Negri. The result provides new ways of thinking about money that seek not only to understand it but to change it.