title: Geoffrey Ingham
text: # Geoffrey Ingham
  
  Geoffrey Ingham is a British sociologist, political economist, and author of books on capitalism and money.
  
  ## Career
  
  Ingham was born in 1942, and read sociology at the University of Leicester, graduating in 1964. He attended Cambridge University as a postgraduate student, where he was awarded a Ph.D degree in 1968. After teaching at Sussex and Leicester Universities, he became a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge in 1972. He was Reader in Sociology and Political Economy at Cambridge, and remains Emeritus Reader and a Fellow of Christ's.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Money. What is Political Economy (2020)
  * Capitalism (2008)
  * Money: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Economics, Sociology and Political Science (2005)
  * The Nature of Money (2004)
  * Capitalism Divided? The City and Industry in British Social Development (1984)
  