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Yes, indeed. Chris Sinha's paper, distributed here not long ago, is good on this too. Martin On Oct 16, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Tony Whitson wrote: > > Of course, neither the thought of the dollar bill nor the paper dollar bill itself is actually a DOLLAR. > > a DOLLAR is a measure of value used for exchange, keeping accounts, etc. > > And monetary value is not an altogether different kind of affair than semantic value or phonemic value -- i.e., Saussure's "valeur." > > An excellent source on such matters is the work of David Graeber > (see http://www.amazon.com/David-Graeber/e/B001IQXM5K/ ), who also happens to be one of the instigators of the Occupy Wall Street movement. > > In his latest book on Debt, Graeber argues that Adam Smith's fable about the orgins of money is completely unsupported by any history or anthropology. Graeber's work is full of examples that could be used for exploring issues in this thread. > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca