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Currency and culture: elements for an institutional approach to money

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  • Moacir dos Anjos Jr.

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This article aims at demonstrating the institutional character of money and atexamining the necessary conditions to preserve it as a social operator. Money is a social institutionbecause it is central to the maintenance of social practices necessary for the creationof productive wealth and therefore for the material reproduction of modem capitalist economies.Moreover, as the productive circuit is one of the spheres of those economies in whichprivate “passions” and social “interests” can be reconciled, money is presented as an elementof social cohesion. It is argued, however, that only if trust in the maintenance of the “unityof the functions of money” endures can money be preserved as a social institution. Trust, insum, is shown to emerge from a cognitive process embedded in specific cultural patterns,whereby information is generated, passed on and reinforced, gradually engendering habitsand conventions to be followed by economic agents. JEL Classification: E41; E42; B52.

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  • Moacir dos Anjos Jr., 1998. "Currency and culture: elements for an institutional approach to money," Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Center of Political Economy, vol. 18(1), pages 57-75.
    • Handle: RePEc:ekm:repojs:v:18:y:1998:i:1:p:57-75:id:1122
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    Keywords

    Currency; economic institutions; new institutional economics;
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    JEL classification:

    • E41 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Demand for Money
    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • B52 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Modern Monetary Theory;

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