This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid wh...(展开全部)

This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid wh...(展开全部)

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In 1912, when Mises, at age thirty-one, wrote this landmark book, no monetary theory could be described as both securely founded on economic reality and properly incorporated into an analysis of the entire economic system. "The Theory of Money and Credit" opened new vistas. It integrated monetary theory into the main body of economic analysis for the first time, providing fresh...(展开全部)

路德维希·冯·米塞斯（1881-1973），20世纪著名的经济学大师，卓越的自由主义思想家。奥地利学派第三代掌门人，朝圣山学社成员。自由意志主义运动的主要代表人物，也是促成古典自由主义复苏的学者。被誉为是“奥地利学派的院长”。2000年被美国《自由》杂志评为“自由至上主义的世纪人物”。

In 1912, when Mises, at age thirty-one, wrote this landmark book, no monetary theory could be described as both securely founded on economic reality and properly incorporated into an analysis of the entire economic system. "The Theory of Money and Credit" opened new vistas. It integrated monetary theory into the main body of economic analysis for the first time, providing fresh...(展开全部)

路德维希·冯·米塞斯（1881-1973），20世纪著名的经济学大师，卓越的自由主义思想家。奥地利学派第三代掌门人，朝圣山学社成员。自由意志主义运动的主要代表人物，也是促成古典自由主义复苏的学者。被誉为是“奥地利学派的院长”。2000年被美国《自由》杂志评为“自由至上主义的世纪人物”。

Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is it to be explained by environmental pressures on our ancestors a million years ago, or is it a cultural invention of more recent origin? In The Evolution of Morality, Richard Joyce takes up these controversial questions, finding that the evidence support...(展开全部)

Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is it to be explained by environmental pressures on our ancestors a million years ago, or is it a cultural invention of more recent origin? In The Evolution of Morality, Richard Joyce takes up these controversial questions, finding that the evidence support...(展开全部)