The Fetishism to Credit Money with an Intrinsic Power to Change (‘Invert') Society and Culture

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Pedagogy - Theory of Science, Anthropology, grade: 69, University of Cambridge, language: English, abstract: Modern money is not easily captured. Some accounts even claim that its defining feature is its quality as a universal leveller and yardstick (see Maurer, 2006:16). This quality, however, is exactly what we want to debate. Without being confined to a p...