Money: Instrument of Exchange or Social Institution of Value?

André Orléan (2020) In: P. Alary, J. Blanc, L. Desmedt & B. Théret (eds.), Institutionalist Theories of Money. An Anthology of the French School. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer, pp. 239-264. Extract. “It is striking that many sociologists observe that their discipline has failed to establish an adequate intellectual framework for the systematic analysis of money. […] How is such a deficiency of sociological thought to be explained— that is, the absence of a general conception of mo..