Pieniądz jako zjawisko kultury

• Authors: Marcin Kula

Title variants

EN

MONEY AS CULTURAL PHENOMENON

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author reflects on the evaluation of the notion of money in history. In many situations coins and banknotes were a proof for the existence of local, independent, political power. People’s attitude toward money was quite an important matter, too; in many situations neither money nor those professionally dealing with money were appreciated socially. Numerous utopian movements disliked money. Communism was one of them. The communist economy was driven — at least in theory — by overwhelming planning rather than by the incentive of money. After the fall of communism a question arised whether all or nearly all public activity should be driven by money or whether some domains of social activity should rather be kept as public domains

Keywords

PL

pieniądze; monety; atrybuty władzy; komunizm

EN

money; coins; the attributes of power; communism

• Publisher: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
• Journal: Kultura i Społeczeństwo
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 2-3
• Pages: 171-185

Contributors

author

Marcin Kula

• Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego