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The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies Erotic allowing contemporary readers to experienceA dollar is a dollar or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing relations to cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money. Or is it? Distinguished social scientist and prize winning author Viviana Zelizer argues against this conventional wisdom. She shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways