The term “social money” suggests that some money, such as the form we are familiar with, is not social, even anti-social. With Mauss, I consider that money’s principal function, like that of the gift, is the extension of society, just as Simmel saw society’s potential for universality reflected in money.
He contributed the concept of the informal economy to development studies and has published widely on economic anthropology, especially about money. One reflexive theme of his work is the relationship between movement and identity in the transition from national to world society.
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