Money, liberty and nonpublic sources of social stability

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9255697
AutoresMax Strietholt (Universität Trier, autor de correspondencia)
Año2026
Volumen84
Número2
Páginas1-41
Fecha de publicación2026-01-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReview of Social Economy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0034-6764 • E-ISSN: 1470-1162
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00346764.2025.2612022
OpenAlexW7124973148
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas62

Within political philosophy, money has widely been characterized as conferring a negative form of liberty, because it renders the motivational forces behind the preferences of agents both invisible and irrelevant. During the course of this paper, I distinguish between descriptive and normative versions of this claim, and argue that both dismiss fundamental aspects of the practices that constitute modern money. The central thesis of this paper is that money does not, as the normative claim suggests, make nonpublic beliefs dispensable to achieve social stability. Rather, it relocates them from the past into the future

Social control · Stability (learning theory) · Economic, financial, and policy analysis · Social Capital and Networks · World Systems and Global Transformations