Description
A classic of twentieth century sociology that has reprinted many times and become a landmark text With its insights into the fetishisation of money and the impact of extremes of wealth and poverty, it is now seen as prophetic in a credit driven, globalised world economy Anticipates many of the insights of later theorists such as Habermas, Baudrillard and Zizek Foresess the links between money and the growth of cities and urbanisation New foreword by Charles Lemert
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Foreword to The Routledge Classics Edition Preface to the Third Edition Introduction to the Translation Analytical Part 1. Value and Money 2. The Value of Money as Substance 3. Money in the Sequence of Purposes Synthetic Part 4. Individual Freedom 5. The Money Equivalent of Personal Values 6. the Style of Life Appendix: The Constitution of the Text
