| Autor: |
Fenton, T.R |
| Předmět: |
|
| Kategorie: |
|
| Popis: |
Money as Species is a critical theory of money based on social construction. It provides a multi-disciplinary synthesis strongly guided by the institutional philosophy of John R. Searle. An information-based ontology of social reality is used to reframe existential questions about money and species, and develop new concepts that enable money as species to be explored. The major contributions of this work are in the fields of biology and sociology. The concept of conjugate species is introduced to address the species problem through adaptation of the ecological species concept to social reality and agency of artifacts. The study adds to the sociology of money through a constructivist model that directly applies the conjugate species concept in computer simulation. The potential implications of the work are far-reaching and discussed in a scenario framework derived from Pascal's Wager. Money as Species is timely given the current global financial crisis; however it has more to do with September 11, 2001 and impact of the unforeseen. The study is not about making money and has little to do with contemporary economics; it is about acquiring the cognitive tools to understand the evolutionary cost of our servitude to money. |
| Databáze: |
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Externí odkaz: |
|
