Social Meaning of Money

Viviana A. Zelizer is the Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She is the author of The Purchase of Intimacy, Pricing the Priceless Child, Economic Lives and Morals and Markets

• Foreword to the 2017 Edition, by Nigel Dodd ix Acknowledgments xiii 1 The Marking of Money 1 2 The Domestic Production of Monies 36 3 Gifted Money 71 4 Poor People's Money 119 5 With Strings Attached: The Earmarking of Charitable Cash 143 6 Contested Monies 170 7 What Does Money Mean? 199 Afterword to the 2017 Edition 217 Notes 229 Index 285

Winner of the 1996 Culture Section Book Award, American Sociological Association "Interesting and informative... Money is a medium of exchange. But that is only the beginning."--John Kenneth Galbraith, New York Times Book Review "Zelizer's book is one of the richest and most thoughtful investigations of [money's] weirdness, examining in detail how money works in the real world, how we try to manage and control it, why we freely give it away in some circumstances--think, for instance, of tipping and how money shapes the relationships we have with one another."--James Surowiecki, GQ Magazine "Zelizer has accomplished a rarity, writing a genuinely original book."--Randall Collins, Society