Introduction: The Quality of Quantity: Monetary Amounts and Their Materialities
Sandy Ross, Mario Schmidt, and Ville Koskinen
Chapter 1. Is Gold Jewelry Money?
Peter Oakley
Chapter 2. Injury and Measurement: Jacob Grimm on Blood Money and Concrete Quantification
Anna Echterhölter
Chapter 3. Five Thousand, 5,00, and Five Thousands: Disentangling Ruble Quantities and Qualities
Sandy Ross
Chapter 4. "Money is Life:" Quantity, Social Freedom, and Combinatory Practices in Western Kenya
Mario Schmidt
Chapter 5. Money and Morality of Commensuration: Currencies of Poverty in Post-Soviet Cuba
Martin Holbraad
Chapter 6. 'Money on the Street' as a Hoard: How Informal Moneylenders Remain Unbanked
Martin Fotta
Chapter 7. What is Money? A Definition Beyond Materiality and Quantity
Emanuel Seitz
Afterword
Nigel Dodd
Sandy Ross has been a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, and a Sociology Fellow at the Higher School of Economics. With Chris Swader, she is editing a forthcoming issue on post-socialist moral economies for the Journal of Consumer Culture, and her newest book, Weapons of the Geek: Moral Economies in the 21st Century, will be published in 2020 by Palgrave.