Philosophy of Money

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1. DiscourseFanOct 2024
   Another, earlier book that essentially takes the same premise but in a far grander fashion is Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Money, which takes money as the central organizing factor of contemporary society and examines everything from that standpoint. I would highly recommend it; though it's quite long, and if you don't have time to read it all you can start from the last chapter.
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2. selmatApr 2016
   Good brief introduction is youtube channel School of Life: https://www.youtube.com/user/schooloflifechannel

   Some of social philosophy essays I have read recently are:

   Konrad Paul Liessmann - theory of ignorance: the errors of the knowledge society (original: Theorie der Unbildung: die Irrtümer der Wissensgesellschaft, 2006 )

   Elias Canetti - Crowds and Power (original: Masse und Macht, 1960)

   Georg Simmel - Philosophy of Money (original: Philosophie des Geldes, 1900)

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3. applecoreMar 2016
   If you're interested in the history of this topic, check out Debt: The First 5000 Years[1] by David Graeber and The Philosophy of Money[2] by Georg Simmel, a sociologist whose main work was on money as a social phenomenon.

   [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years

   [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philosophy_of_Money

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4. paganelJul 2019
   The money one holds always has ties to the people surrounding its owner, no matter if those people are known, unknown, born or unborn (I honestly didn't understand the thing about the unborn people, as we as a society do lots of societal stuff for the people not yet born), and in that regards money is indeed one of the most social/societal things ever. As a matter of fact sociology itself as a science was partly born as a result of Georg Simmel's book called "The Philosophy of Money" [1], published more than 100 years ago.

   > Probably considered Simmel's greatest work, Simmel saw money as a structuring agent that helps us understand the totality of life.

   [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philosophy_of_Money

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5. itmagFeb 2012
   I have George Simmel's "The Philosophy of Money" but I haven't read it yet.

   Bought it on the recommendation of this guy: http://earlyretirementextreme.com/the-independence-of-money....

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