Opening book details…
Can I read The Social Meanings of Money and Property: In Search of a Talisman; Kenneth O. Doyle; Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks CA, 1999, pp. xii + 288, ISBN 0-7619-0209-0 Paper (£22), 0-7619-0208-2 Hardcover (£47) on EtoBox?
The Social Meanings of Money and Property: In Search of a Talisman; Kenneth O. Doyle; Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks CA, 1999, pp. xii + 288, ISBN 0-7619-0209-0 Paper (£22), 0-7619-0208-2 Hardcover (£47) by Carole Burgoyne is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Social Meanings of Money and Property: In Search of a Talisman; Kenneth O. Doyle; Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks CA, 1999, pp. xii + 288, ISBN 0-7619-0209-0 Paper (£22), 0-7619-0208-2 Hardcover (£47) about?
Kenneth Doyle says that his approach `might qualify as something new' because he has attempted to combine `selected aspects of history of law, religion, and philosophy into a coherent framework' with a synthesis of neurophysiology, psychometrics, and psychoanalysis in order to study the meanings of money and property (p. 123). I had been looking forward to reading this book. Money is a complex phenomenon and needs the insights from a variety of disciplines. Sadly, though, I doubt this book will further our understanding of these important issues. One of the reasons for this scepticism is that I am not persuaded by the evolutionary story on which so much of his thesis depends. Doyle opts for the `out of Africa' side of the debate about human evolution, but argues that early man evolved into four distinct strains of Homo sapiens sapiens with speci®c types of temperament that persist to this day. The four types of humanity are identi®ed as African, Asian, European, and American Indian, and their respective temperaments are labelled as Expressive, Analytic, Driver, and Amiable. He asserts that natural selection, cultural selection, and neuronal-group selection have established `neuroan
Who reads The Social Meanings of Money and Property: In Search of a Talisman; Kenneth O. Doyle; Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks CA, 1999, pp. xii + 288, ISBN 0-7619-0209-0 Paper (£22), 0-7619-0208-2 Hardcover (£47)?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Social Sciences.
- Author
- Carole Burgoyne
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; North-Holland Publ Co; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0167-4870)
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences