The hypostasis of money: an economic point of view
论证货币并非实体，而是一种与特定社会组织相关的流通模式，批判货币实体化有助于理解现代货币关系的矛盾、重新评价原始货币，并促进比较分析。
The purpose of this article is to show that money is not an entity but hic et nunc a genuine mode of circulation associated with a genuine social organisation. Criticising money hypostasis may help to to: (i) elucidate the ambivalence of monetary relations in our modern society (equivalence and subordination); (ii) criticise the idea that 'primitive monies' are nothing but imperfect forms of our modern money and show that exotic societies are worth studying for themselves; and (iii) relativise the knowledge we have about our societies and to develop comparative analysis. A sketchy comparison between wodani society and ours suggests that an abduction relation exists between money and society. Copyright 2007, Oxford University Press.