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When Money Changes Society

The case of Sardex money as community

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Authors:
  1. Giacomo Bazzani

    1. Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications “G. Parenti”, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy

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  • The crisis of the financial system and the development of alternative currencies
  • First scientific study about Sardex
  • Theoretical and empirical approach

Part of the book series: Wirtschaft + Gesellschaft (WUG)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Giacomo Bazzani
    Pages 1-7

  3. A Mechanism Approach for Money

    • Giacomo Bazzani
    Pages 9-25

  4. The Sardex Experience

    • Giacomo Bazzani
    Pages 27-58

  5. Social Mechanisms Influenced by Sardex

    • Giacomo Bazzani
    Pages 59-158

  6. Conclusions

    • Giacomo Bazzani
    Pages 159-184

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 185-189
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About this book

Classical sociology considered money as central to the functioning of modern society, relating
it to a progressive expansion of instrumental rationality and the emergence of weaker social ties.
Modern money, the universal equivalent described by Simmel, facilitates the
exchange of goods and values by providing a single unit of account. This “frees” people and things
from traditional social ties and makes them free to “sell” their work and trade goods on markets that
increasingly erode national borders. Modern money thus frees the individual from traditional social
ties and facilitates the creation of ever larger and more inter-connected markets. Sardex money, on
the other hand, seems to work in the opposite direction: the weak social ties of ordinary economic
transactions are replaced by strong ones, characterised by a high level of reciprocity and by an ethical code. Furthermore the movementof goods is restricted to the regional level and much is
done to promote economic exchanges between member companies.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications “G. Parenti”, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy

    Giacomo Bazzani

About the author

Giacomo Bazzani, Ph.D, works in the Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications "G. Parenti", University of Florence.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: When Money Changes Society

  • Book Subtitle: The case of Sardex money as community

  • Authors: Giacomo Bazzani

  • Series Title: Wirtschaft + Gesellschaft

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-28533-3

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-28532-6Published: 10 May 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-28533-3Published: 09 May 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2626-6156

  • Series E-ISSN: 2626-6164

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 189

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology

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