Marcel Mauss und ökonomische Theorien: Die Institution Geld

Marcel Mauss and Economic Theories: The Institution of Money

Henrik Egbert ()

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Abstract: This paper puts Marcel Mauss’s concept on money in the context of economic theories. Mauss articulated his thoughts on money in the first decades of the 20th century. They are considerably less known and discussed than his famous essay on ‘the gift’. Nevertheless, his contributions on the origin and function of money are worth being examined in economics as well as in economic-anthropological discourse. This essay relates Mauss’s ideas to microeconomic theories. The argument pursued is that his concepts on money are both compatible with neoclassical, and with New Institutional Economic theories. For this purpose, the text addresses three parallels.

Keywords: Marcel Mauss; money; the gift; history of economic thought (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B15 Z10 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-03-27
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