• DOI:10.1111/J.1747-4469.2005.TB00345.X
Corpus ID: 153867162

The Market as a Matter of Money: Denaturalizing Economic Currency in American Constitutional History

@article{Desan2005TheMA,
  title={The Market as a Matter of Money: Denaturalizing Economic Currency in American Constitutional History},
  author={Christine Desan},
  journal={Law and Social Inquiry-journal of The American Bar Foundation},
  year={2005},
  volume={30},
  pages={1-60}
}

Christine Desan

Published 2005

Economics

Law and Social Inquiry-journal of The American Bar Foundation

Histories of the early American political economy present that world in fractured form, dividing political and constitutional dimensions from economic aspects. The fragmented approach reflects an old, oft-denigrated, but still powerful imagery, one that naturalizes economic activity as a set of myriad spontaneous and individuated exchanges, conducted with a conventional medium, money, and predictably composing a market sphere. The motif and its underlying assumptions in turn dissuade… CONTINUE READING

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