The Cultural Life of Money

The book discusses how culture simultaneously shapes and is shaped by the economy. In a world stumbling from one financial crisis to another, the neat separation of economics and culture has been consistently challenged. Structured in four chapters that deal with theory and conjuncture, with finance and art, with literary representation and fiduciary narrativity, and with cognition and the economy, this collection analyzes the process whereby a material icon invested with the symbolical power to rule social exchange becomes an explanatory narrative determining the way societies produce meaning.

Auteur

Isabel Capeloa Gil, UCP - CECC, Lisbon, Portugal; Helena Gonçalves Silva, UL - CECC, Lisbon, Portugal.