Location: Munich, Germany
Contact:  jens.zickgraf@moneyness.info

Welcome! I am Jens M. Zickgraf. Moneyness.info is my personal website. So far I use it as a platform to share my (former) academic profile and at least some of my thoughts on money. However, please note that I attend to this domain just every once in a while.

Moneyness – i.e. the qualitative dimensions not only of money as such but of whatever relates to money in meaningful, explicit and valuable ways – is the core theme which came up during years of ethnographic research in India and which continues to inform my theoretical perspective. Some of my basic ideas can be found here and here (external link).

Moneyness makes me interested in:

• historical variations, politics and future potentials of money and finance
  
• social aesthetics of money
  
• pecuniary identities and monetary cultures
  
• payment as “technology”, “infrastructure”, “communication” and “performance”
• economic and moral spheres of valuation – “value” and “value-add”
• financial networks, landscapes, ecologies …
  
• money in India (and in particular the question what we can learn from India’s rich pecuniary traditions with an eye towards contemporary revolutions in the mainstream fields of economic thought, credit and electronic transaction)
• financial markets and stock trading
  

Thanks for visting!