{"title":"Tony Lawson on money","authors":"Josef Menšík","doi":"10.2478/revecp-2023-0012","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Tony Lawson, the leading figure of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group, recently published a series of papers devoted to the question of the nature of money. These contributions have to be understood in the context of his broader approach to social ontology, the so called social positioning theory. While at first glance Lawson’s monetary ideas might appear disconnected and sometimes even contradictory or mistaken, there is a consistent vision behind them which is Lawson general social ontology. Lawson’s elaboration of the nature of money is not the only one compatible with the social positioning theory and an alternative one is briefly proposed in the paper. While systematising various Lawson’s monetary contributions, attention has been paid to several particular discrepancies and mistakes and their rectification. At the end of the paper, some lessons from analysing Lawson’s monetary contributions are drawn for his general approach to social ontology.","PeriodicalId":43002,"journal":{"name":"Review of Economic Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Review of Economic Perspectives","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2478/revecp-2023-0012","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Tony Lawson, the leading figure of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group, recently published a series of papers devoted to the question of the nature of money. These contributions have to be understood in the context of his broader approach to social ontology, the so called social positioning theory. While at first glance Lawson’s monetary ideas might appear disconnected and sometimes even contradictory or mistaken, there is a consistent vision behind them which is Lawson general social ontology. Lawson’s elaboration of the nature of money is not the only one compatible with the social positioning theory and an alternative one is briefly proposed in the paper. While systematising various Lawson’s monetary contributions, attention has been paid to several particular discrepancies and mistakes and their rectification. At the end of the paper, some lessons from analysing Lawson’s monetary contributions are drawn for his general approach to social ontology.
剑桥社会本体论小组(Cambridge Social Ontology Group)的领军人物托尼-劳森(Tony Lawson)最近发表了一系列论文,专门探讨货币的本质问题。这些贡献必须结合他更广泛的社会本体论方法,即所谓的社会定位理论来理解。乍一看,劳森的货币思想似乎互不关联,有时甚至相互矛盾或有误,但在这些思想的背后却有一个一致的观点,这就是劳森的一般社会本体论。劳森对货币本质的阐述并非唯一符合社会定位理论的观点,本文简要提出了另一种观点。在对劳森的各种货币贡献进行系统梳理的同时,也注意到了一些特殊的差异和错误及其纠正。最后,本文通过分析劳森的货币贡献,为其社会本体论的一般方法提供了一些启示。