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Professor Geoffrey Ingham

Geoffrey Ingham is an Emeritus Professor in Sociology and Political Economy and Fellow of Christ’s College.

He was born in 1942 and received a BA in Sociology from the University of Leicester in 1964, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1968. Before returning to Cambridge in 1972, he taught at the Universities of Sussex and Leicester.

Key Publications - Books

Ingham, G. (2008) Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity Press

Ingham, G. (2004). The Nature of Money, Cambridge: Polity

Ingham, G. (2005). Money: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Economics, Sociology and Political Science, Cheltenham: Elgar.

Organizational Size and Worker Behaviour, Cambridge University Press (1970)

Strikes and Industrial Conflict, London, Palgrave Macmillan (1974)

Capitalism Divided? The City and Industry in Britain’s Social Development, London, Palgrave (1984)

Concepts of Money: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Economics, Sociology and Political Science
Volume 8 of Critical studies in economic institutions Elgar reference collection 2005

Capitalism (2008; Postscript on Financial Crisis, 2011) translations: Italian; Polish.

Money (2020) translation: Korean

Key Publications - Book Chapters

Ingham, G. (2005) ‘Money’ in J. Beckert and M. Zafiroski (eds) International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, London: Routledge.

Ingham, G. (2004). The development of capitalist credit money. In L. Randall Wray (ed.) Credit and State Theories of Money, Cheltenham: Elgar

Ingham, G. (2002). ‘New Monetary Spaces?’/ ‘De Nouveaux Espaces Monetaires?’. In OECD, The Future of Money/L’Avenir de la Monnaie. Paris:OECD

Key Publications - Journal Articles

Ingham, G. (2006). ‘Further reflections on the ontology of money’, Economy and Society, 35(1): 259-278.

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Emeritus Professor in Sociology and Political Economy, Fellow of Christ’s College
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