author develops a conceptual framework that strives to account for differences in meanings various individuals and cultures attach to money and property, I found it interesting especially in thinking about how and why different people perceive and react to money differently based on their fears/comforts.
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I found the author's subthesis that there are biological foundations for those perceptual mechanisms and that attitudes and values flow from those to be deeply problematic and racist as all hell.
One star. In this fascinating volume Kenneth O Doyle provides a conceptual framework for understanding the social meanings of money and property, and the psychological, cultural, economic and political variables which contribute to these meanings.
The author advances the concept of money as talisman, by which individuals protect themselves from their individual fears: of incompetence, abandonment, disorganization and constraint to mention but a few.
Examples in support of this argument are drawn from many social systems, contemporary and historical, .
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Kenneth O. Doyle