Money Infrastructure for Solidarity and Sustainability

The sum of an ideal view of society, with an abstract action model of social interaction, imbues money infrastructure that seeks to further a utopian view of society. This article analyses the cases of ordinary money as the euro and Sardex, a successful case of complementary currency born in Sardini...

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Published in:Historical social research (Köln) 2022-01, Vol.47 (4), p.114-138
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