Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
2-2020
Abstract
John Clarke presents the theme of this volume by asking why we might speak of “imagined economies”. It is, he answers, “to interrupt the apparent ubiquity of economies”, to provide a moment for “a pause for thought”. In this chapter, I explore the role that imagination plays in the creation and maintenance of a money system. Money is important to the existence and functioning of an economy.1 Money, too, seems ubiquitous and naturally-occurring, so I want to pause and consider why it is that we might have money and what exactly it is doing. Different objects have served as money, or tokens of money, in different societies.
Discipline
Eastern European Studies | Law and Economics
Research Areas
Innovation, Technology and the Law
Publication
Imagined economies – real fictions: New perspectives on economic thinking in Great Britain
Editor
FISCHER, Jessica; STEDMAN, Gesa
First Page
79
Last Page
100
ISBN
9783837648812
Identifier
10.14361/9783839448816-005
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City or Country
Bielefeld
Citation
ALLEN, J.G..
Imagining money. (2020). Imagined economies – real fictions: New perspectives on economic thinking in Great Britain. 79-100.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4450
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839448816-005