What is it about?
Holmes has provided an important study of central bankers emphasizing the importance of language in their relations with the public.
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Why is it important?
Perhaps he has gone too far in replacing a focus on money with one on language. Both are our main means of communication, but one should not be substituted for the other and there is more to modern money than rhetoric.
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Cultural anthropologists will not be forced out of their comfort zone by this book.
Keith Hart
Goldsmiths, University of London
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This page is a summary of: Economy of Words: Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks. Douglas R. Holmes. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. 280 pp., American Anthropologist, March 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/aman.12469.
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