Includes bibliographical references and index.

Economics and the Philosophical Discourse on Money -- On Conceptual Frameworks and the Role of a Philosophical Discourse on Money -- Aristotle and the Philosophical Discourse on Money: Ethics, Politics and the Nature of Monetary Value -- Objects, Money and the Grounds of Monetary Value -- Money and the Modern Scientific Paradigm -- The Political Economists, their Critics and the Long Shadow of Aristotle -- The Traditional Paradigm of Monetary Value and the Philosophical Problems surrounding it -- Moving Beyond the Substantive Framework of Monetary Value: Voices of Discontentment -- Origin of Money: The Barter Narrative and the Credit theory of Money -- Simmel and the Myth of Objective Truths Concerning Monetary Value -- Money Is What Money Does -- The constructivist paradigm: how are we to understand monetary value? -- Substance and Relation: Two Sides of the Same Coin -- Fleshing out the multi-categorical, constructivist framework for monetary value -- Why a constructivist framework of monetary value?

"This book offers a novel understanding of money distinct from the dominant lens of economics through which it is usually observed. In contrast to the economic frameworks of 'money', the volume examines philosophical discourses on money through conceptual frameworks that explain how monetary value manifests in various empirical monetary systems. It showcases how the increasingly abstract nature of the objects that stand proxy for money could be conceptualized ontologically, highlighting the predominance of digital money today, as well as contemporary monetary innovations such as cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Provocative, yet grounded in a sound theoretical framework, this book will be of interest to scholars, students and teachers of philosophy, economics, sociology, anthropology, finance, science and technology studies, as well as the interested general reader"--