Money is the supreme form of social being, yet bourgeois social science makes no investigation into its social life. Economics, the discipline within which such an enquiry might be most expected, remains curiously uninterested, restricting itself to discussions of price, scarcity and resource, allocation, with no specific interest in money as such: "economics is the study of how men and society choose, with or without the use of money, to employ scarce productive resources' (Samuelson, 1967, quoted in Rubin, 1973; emphasis added). Where money is of concern to economists they limit their research to questions about the (dys)functionality of money and its supply.