"Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking. The contributors shed light on contemporary fiscal structures and...

Money Counts -- Introduction. The Quality of Quantity: Monetary Amounts and Their Materialities -- Chapter 1. Is Gold Jewelry Money? -- Chapter 2. Injury and Measurement -- Chapter 3. Five Thousand, 5,000, and Five Thousands -- Chapter 4. "Money Is Life" -- Chapter 5. Money and the Morality of...

Klappentext: "Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. On the Qualities of Quantity moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money's...