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How Would You Like to Pay?: How Technology Is Changing the Future of Money
Bill Maurer
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Description for How Would You Like to Pay?: How Technology Is Changing the Future of Money
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 176 pages, 51 color illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBT; KCCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 4522 x 3226 x 9. Weight in Grams: 182.
From Bitcoin to Apple Pay, big changes seem to be afoot in the world of money. Yet the use of coins and paper bills has persisted for 3,000 years. In How Would You Like to Pay?, leading anthropologist Bill Maurer narrates money's history, considers its role in everyday life, and discusses the implications of how new technologies are changing how we pay. These changes are especially important in the developing world, where people who lack access to banks are using cell phones in creative ways to send and save money. To truly understand money, Maurer explains, is to understand and ... Read more
From Bitcoin to Apple Pay, big changes seem to be afoot in the world of money. Yet the use of coins and paper bills has persisted for 3,000 years. In How Would You Like to Pay?, leading anthropologist Bill Maurer narrates money's history, considers its role in everyday life, and discusses the implications of how new technologies are changing how we pay. These changes are especially important in the developing world, where people who lack access to banks are using cell phones in creative ways to send and save money. To truly understand money, Maurer explains, is to understand and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
182g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822359999
SKU
V9780822359999
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-24
About Bill Maurer
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. ... Read more
Reviews for How Would You Like to Pay?: How Technology Is Changing the Future of Money
Bill Maurer's short, pocket-sized, succinct, lively, and sharply clear book on a vast and varied topic-the history and practice of monetary payments, worldwide-works like a skillfully cut gemstone. Keep turning, keep noticing new facets of the complexly brilliant entity that is money, as perceived and crafted for accessible view by an expert in reaching a wide and varied audience. ... Read more