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Zelizer, Viviana A. The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997 (1994).
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Friedman, Debra. The Social Meaning of Money by Viviana A. Zelizer in American
Journal of Sociology. Vol. 101, No. 2, September 1995.
"Viviana Zelizer has written an interesting and informative book showing that
there is much more to the meaning of money than... economic theory and its formidable
equations ever imply. Money is a medium of exchange. But this is only the beginning".
John Kenneth Galbraith, The New York
Times Book Review
"Viviana Zelizer has a genius for detecting hidden order in everyday practices.
... Gently but firmly she uses her discoveries to overturn widespread beliefs in
the power of money to corrupt, standardize, and depersonalize social ties. Best of
all, she writes of these complex matters with grace, lucidity, wit, and humanity"
Charles Tilly, Director, Center for Studies
of Social Change, New School for Social Research
"A wonderfully enterprising journey through the roles played by money in the consumer
life and culture in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America"
Albert Hirschman, Institute for Advanced
Studies
"Superbly written and vividly illustrated with original and theoretically pertinent
archival material and vignettes, The Social Meaning of Money is a model of
rigorous and innovative schlarship, not only for economic sociology but for all of
the social sciences"
Pierre Bourdieu, Collège de France
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