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One thing all mainstream economists agree upon is that money has nothing whatsoever to do with desire. This strange blindness of the profession to what is otherwise considered to be a basic feature of economic life serves as the starting point for this provocative new theory of money. Through the works of Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, and Max Weber, __What Money Wants__ argues that money is first and foremost an object of desire. In contrast to the common notion that money is but an ordinary object that people believe to be money, this book explores the theoretical consequences of the possibility that an ordinary object fulfills money's function insofar as it is desired __as__ money. Rather than conceiving of the desire for money as pathological, Noam Yuran shows how it permeates economic reality, from finance to its spectacular double in our consumer economy of addictive shopping. Rich in colorful and accessible examples, from the work of Charles Dickens to Reality TV and commercials, this book convinces us that we must return to Marx and Veblen if we are to understand how brand names, broadcast television, and celebrity culture work. Analyzing both classical and contemporary econo

Who reads What Money Wants : An Economy of Desire?

Author

Noam Yuran; Keith Hart

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804788892

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Economics, Philosophy

Rating

4.4 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14