SOCIO-INSTITUTIONAL MONEY MEASUREMENT
The article offers a comprehensive analysis of the category "money". A retrospective theoretical and methodological review of this category with references to the works of both domestic and foreign authors is carried out. The factors of the emergence of money, the features of the process of their evolution, constant and modern determinants of their existence and use are considered. The factor (institution) of trust is considered in detail as the key influencing the subjective perception of money. The institutions (banks, the state) that influence the functioning of the monetary aggregate are analyzed, taking into account the peculiarities of their influence on money in various socio-political conditions.