Money and Thoughtlessness: A Genealogy and Defense of the Traditional Suspicions of Money and Merchants
1 Introduction -- 2 Money, Myths, and Thoughtlessness -- 3 The Neolithic Revolution: From Social Currencies to Debt -- 4 The Axial Age -- 5 Animist Ontologies, Abstraction, and Slavery -- 6 Mastering Money: Usury, Governance and Science in Medieval Europe -- 7 The Modern Attacks on the Traditional Suspicions of Money and Merchants -- 8 Against Homo Economicus: Mauss and Gift Cultures -- 9 The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and Contemporary Cynicism -- 10 Money and Thoughtlessness: Abstraction, Quantification, Adiaphorization -- 11 Conclusions.