The Value of Money in a Religious Group

He suggests that his way of thinking about groups, which distinguishes between the overt purpose and the function that is hidden, can be brought to bear on economics. He wants to understand flows of money as being indexes or trailing signals or enactments even, or I guess communications, we call them, of anxieties about group structure. And here's an example, he gives it when a nation as a group goes into full fight or flight mode. In the latter, the value of money is linked with its convertibility into munitions of war. In the former, with its value in offsetting feelings of guilt for dependence beyond reasonable time limits, and on parents more than human by the purchase of feelings of

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