Overview
- The crisis of the financial system and the development of alternative currencies
- First scientific study about Sardex
- Theoretical and empirical approach
Part of the book series: Wirtschaft + Gesellschaft (WUG)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
About this book
it to a progressive expansion of instrumental rationality and the emergence of weaker social ties.
Modern money, the universal equivalent described by Simmel, facilitates the
exchange of goods and values by providing a single unit of account. This “frees” people and things
from traditional social ties and makes them free to “sell” their work and trade goods on markets that
increasingly erode national borders. Modern money thus frees the individual from traditional social
ties and facilitates the creation of ever larger and more inter-connected markets. Sardex money, on
the other hand, seems to work in the opposite direction: the weak social ties of ordinary economic
transactions are replaced by strong ones, characterised by a high level of reciprocity and by an ethical code. Furthermore the movementof goods is restricted to the regional level and much is
done to promote economic exchanges between member companies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Giacomo Bazzani, Ph.D, works in the Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications "G. Parenti", University of Florence.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: When Money Changes Society
Book Subtitle: The case of Sardex money as community
Authors: Giacomo Bazzani
Series Title: Wirtschaft + Gesellschaft
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-28533-3
Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-28532-6Published: 10 May 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-28533-3Published: 09 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2626-6156
Series E-ISSN: 2626-6164
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 189
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour