Conférence d'Akinobu Kuroda dans le cadre du colloque "The variety of exchange and the character of money" qui s'est tenu à l'Ecole normale supérieure les 17 et 18 novembre 2016.
Dans son exposé, Akinobu Kuroda revient sur l'histoire des échanges, leur fonction et leur symbolique:
No one would deny that money is a mean of exhange. However, historically, exhanges between people have had different characteristics, and the devices used to mediate those exchanges (i.e. money, as a mean of exchange) have reflected those characteristics. All exchanges have two, binary characteristics. The first characteristic is the degree of familiarity of the participants : an exchange can either occur anonymously or within a named relationship. As we use this term, the degree of familiarity does not refer to whether a seller and a buyer are acquaintances or strangers, but rather to whether or not the act of making a transaction creates a bond that constrains subsequent transactions. The second characteristic of an exchange is its distance : a trade can be made either proximately or distantly. By distance we do not refer simply to physical distance, but rather to the size of value and to be made more frequency. Proximate exchanges tend to be of small value and to be made more frequently than distant ones. In addition, in agricultural societies, the former is more affected by seasonality than the latter.
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Les recherches de Akinobu Kuroda portent sur les études comparatives de l'histoire monétaire en Asie, Inde, Afrique et Europe. Il travaille spécifiquement sur l'histoire monétaire de la Chine. Dans ce cadre il dirige le projet "International cooperative research on the complementarity among monies caused by temporality, seasonality, and locality in making transactions". Il est docteur en économie de l'Université de Kyoto depuis 1995.
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