How Would You Like to Pay? - How Technology Is Changing the Future of Money

Informationen zum Autor Bill Maurer Klappentext Bill Maurer is Dean of the School of Social Sciences; Professor of Anthropology, Law and Criminology, Law and Society; and the Director of the Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Pious Property: Islamic Mortgages in the United States and Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason.¿ Zusammenfassung In this primer on the history of money! Bill Maurer explores the implications of how technology is changing how we use money and argues that understanding and considering how we would like to pay gives us insight into determining how we would like to live. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  vii Introduction. Who This Book Is For  1 1. Disruptions in Money  17 2. What Is Money?  37 3. Two Scenarios: A Day in the Money Life  51 4. The Evolution of Money  63 5. Use Cases for Money  79 6. What's in Your Wallet?  95 7. What Can You Do with a Mobile Phone?  107 8. Airtime  119 9. Monetary Repertoires  129 For Further Reading  145 Index  153

Product details

• Authors: Bill Maurer
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9780822359999
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5999-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 188 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Duke University Press; Duke University Press
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries