The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies Erotic - Young Adult Fiction |

- Young Adult Fiction | Science Fiction | Alien Contact

A novel by Hamlet Sarkissian

Whether your spirit resides in heaven or in hell depends on the choices you have made

When a young Atlanta physician attends the funeral of the grandparents who raised him

and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus

The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies Erotic - Young Adult Fiction |A dollar is a dollar or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing relations to cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money. Or is it? Distinguished social scientist and prize winning author Viviana Zelizer argues against this conventional wisdom. She shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways