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

Bill Maurer

ISBN 10: 0822359995 / ISBN 13: 9780822359999

Published by Duke University Press, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How Would You Like to Pay?: How Technology Is Changing the Future of Money
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822359995
• ISBN 13: 9780822359999
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 193 grams

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Synopsis

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 appreciate the complex infrastructures and social relationships it relies on. Engaging and straightforward, How Would You Like to Pay? rethinks something so familiar and fundamental in new and exciting ways. Ultimately, considering how we would like to pay gives insights into determining how we would like to live. 

 

About the Author

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.