In anthropology, sociology, and the humanities, money’s quantity is usually conceptualized as objectifying, creating abstract indexes of value, and as representing and enforcing abstraction, economic or otherwise. It is this link between quantity and abstraction that is partly responsible for questionable dichotomies opposing money’s numerical quantities and its qualities. Contributors to this special issue interrogate these dichotomies by exploring material and qualitative aspects of quantities in the history of economic thought, through British jewelers, blood money payments in Germanic law codes, and the everyday use of money in Russia, Kenya, and Cuba and among Brazilian Gypsies. Our introduction frames these engagements by presenting phenomena that blur differences between quality and quantity: part-whole relations, recursivity, set partitioning and infinities, and hysteresis and elastic thresholds.

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在人类学、社会学和人文学科中，货币的数量通常被概念化为客观化、创造抽象的价值指标，并代表和加强抽象，经济或其他方面。正是数量与抽象之间的这种联系，部分地导致了反对货币数量及其质量的可疑二分法。本期特刊的撰稿人通过探索经济思想史上数量的物质和质量方面，通过英国珠宝商，日耳曼法律法规中的血债支付，以及俄罗斯、肯尼亚和古巴等国的日常货币使用来质疑这些二分法。巴西吉普赛人。我们的介绍通过呈现模糊质量和数量之间差异的现象来构建这些参与：部分整体关系、递归性、