Includes bibliographical references and index.

What Does Money Signify? : The 'transvaluation of values' taking place in the relation between currency and language / Jan Soffner -- The Cultural Currency of Semiocapitalism : On the General Law of Gift Exchange / Philipp Kleinmichel -- Social Reconfigurations of Debt-Ridden Societies / David Murillo -- Money, Society and Trust : Lessons from Crisis / Gabriela Badica -- Rural Continuities in the Urban Revolution : Ethics of Work, Labor and Pay in the West African Savannah /Till Forster -- The Bonfires of Money : Capitalism, Memory, and Iconoclasm / Germ�an Labrador -- The Libidinal Investments of the Social Field / Elsie Mitchie -- Unpredictability as an Economic Value / Simona Skrabec -- 'Cultural Economy' and 'Cultural Economics' : Epistemological and Political Consequences of a Fatal Intertwinement / Giovanni Leghissa -- 'I have sworn an oath, that I will have my bond' : Money, Law, and Pre-Legal Liability in Shakespeare and Kleist / Christian Moser -- The Alchemy of Money : Money As a Standard of Value / Bruna Ingrao -- The Troubles of Production : Ezra Pound and Jean Baudrillard on the Symbols of Exchange / Joan Ramon Resina.

"This book's premise is not only the commonly accepted cultural relativity of economic concepts, but also the observation that the current shift in the meaning of concepts like 'market,' 'currency,' 'exchange' and 'money' suggests that culture is undergoing a change with unpredictable economic and political consequences"--

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