Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Part I. Introduction
4. Introduction. Money in a Human Economy 1
5. Chapter 1. Capitalism and Our Moment in the History of Money 15
6. Part II. Thinking About Money
7. Chapter 2. Money is Good to Think: From “Wants of the Mind” to Conversation, Stories, and Accounts 41
8. Chapter 3. The Shadow of Aristotle: A History of Ideas about the Origins of Money 61
9. Chapter 4. Luxury and the Sexual Economy of Capitalism 81
10. Part III. The Evolution of Money Today
11. Chapter 5. The Future of Money is Shaped by the Family Practices of the Global South 101
12. Chapter 6. Remittance Securitization in the Hemisphere of the Américas: From Wall Street to Calle Principal and Back 128
13. Chapter 7. Cross-Border Investment in China 147
14. Chapter 8. Value Transfer and Rent: Or, I Didn’t Realize My Payment Was Your Annuity 167
15. Chapter 9. Bitcoin as Politics 189
16. Part IV. Money in Its Time and Place
17. Chapter 10. A South Asian Mercantile Model of Exchange: Hundi during British Rule 207
18. Chapter 11. Money and Markets For and Against the People: The Rise and Fall of Basotho’s Economic Independence, 1830s–1930s 229
19. Chapter 12. Gender and Money in the Argentinian Trueque 250
20. Chapter 13. An Imaginary Currency: The Haitian Dollar 270
21. Index 291