The Memory Bank: Money in an Unequal World
Out of print
The Memory Bank: Money in an Unequal World (2000)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue: Alvin
Chapter 1 MONEY IN THE MAKING OF HUMANITY: a. On money, machines, and the market; b. At home in the world; c. Reading The Memory Bank.
Chapter 2 THE MACHINE REVOLUTION TODAY: a. A civilization built on machines; b. Mechanization in the long run; c. Origins of the communications revolution; d. The birth of the internet; e. Between agrarian civilization and the machine revolution.
Chapter 3 CAPITALISM, MAKING MONEY WITH MONEY: a. The age of money; b. The theory of capitalism; c. The ongoing origins of capitalism; d. The personal face of capitalism, entrepreneurs.
Chapter 4 CAPITALISM, THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT: a. The twentieth century; b. The development of global inequality; c. State capitalism and the informal economy; d. Virtual capitalism.
Chapter 5 MARKETS FROM A HUMANIST POINT OF VIEW: a. The market, private property and liberal democracy; b. The anthropological critique of economic individualism; c. Market relations in time and space; d. The moral economy of paid and unpaid labour; e. Changing economic relations between men and women; f. Beyond wage slavery?
Chapter 6 THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF MONEY: a. History of the money form; b. Heads or tails? Two sides of the coin; c. The meaning of money; d. Money, whence it came and whither it went e. Money in the age of the internet.
Chapter 7 THE FUTURE OF MONEY AND MARKETS: a. Making money, making scenarios; b. The old regime and the middle-class revolution; c. People’s money: beyond economic coercion; d. Building monetary infrastructure in the 21st century.
Originally published by Profile Books, London, it was republished as Money in an Unequal World: Keith Hart and His Memory Bank (2001).