Departing from this amusing yet entirely real vignette, it is worth considering several outstanding and insightful books that thoughtfully engage with various dimensions of this fascinating subject matter: Billig, M. (1995). Banal nationalism. Sage. Bloch, M., & Parry, J. (Eds.). (1989). Money and the morality of exchange. Cambridge University Press. Desan, C. (2014). Making money: […]
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by Vijay Selvam* Bitcoin has failed. Seventeen years since inception, Bitcoin remains a solution in search of a problem. With its eyewatering volatility, it has flopped as an inflation hedge. The much-touted scarcity of its 21-million-coin cap is rendered meaningless in a landscape teeming with thousands of other cryptocurrencies, each claiming to be scarce in its own […]
The American Sociological Association solutes an eminent scholar and groundbreaking economic sociologist Viviana Zelizer with the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, its highest honor, and the Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology, its second major honor. Presenting Professor Zelizer with the Association’s two most prestigious awards at the same year […]
by LSE Department of Sociology It is with great sadness that we share news of the death of Professor Nigel Dodd on 12 August 2022. Nigel Dodd was Professor of Sociology at the LSE. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1991 on the topic of Money in Social Theory, and lectured at […]