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This chapter asks: What does money do to our dependencies? This chapter draws on recent scholarship within the humanities on money, asking what kinds of dependence we institute in the various forms of money that interlock (e.g. private bank credit and central bank ‘base’ money) and compete (e.g. local currencies and national currencies) in contemporary societies. It frames the normative stakes of these choices about money using Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s republican vision of a constitution for Corsica as a model for thinking about the relationship between economic power and political power.
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Cockburn, P.J.L. (2018). Currencies and Scales of Dependence. In: The Politics of Dependence. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78908-8_5
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