Workshop on Money as a Value System (18 March 2024)
Date and time:
Monday, 18 March 2024, 15:00-17:00 (Japan Standard Time, 9 hours ahead of GST)
Venue (Hybrid):
Building 3, Room 710, Waseda Campus, Waseda University and online (Zoom)
Registration:
If you wish to participate, please register in advance using this form. After registration, the meeting URL (Zoom) will be distributed via email prior to the event.
Speakers:
- Juntaro Fukada (Mie University), “Shell money in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea” (tentative)
- Masato Shizume (Waseda University), “Transition from a multiple to a single currency system in the 19th century Japan” (tentative)
- Chikako Nakayama (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), “Revisiting Georg Fredrich Knapp’s State Theory of Money” (tentative)
- Anders Ögren (Uppsala University), Discussion
In this workshop, we explore alternative ways of viewing money. To achieve this goal, we examine the history of money as “a system to share/communicate the value of things.” We invite speakers from anthropology, economic history and the history of economic thought to discuss the evolution of money. The cases we delve into include: 1) the practical use of shell money in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea in the 21st century, 2) the transition from a system with plural currencies to a single currency in Japan in the late 19th century, and 3) the monetary theorist Georg Fredrich Knapp’s view on money in the early 20th century. These episodes provide us with diverse perspectives for reexamining money from different angles.
Contact: Masato Shizume (e-mail: [email protected])
