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Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 03 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374220-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7422-0
... This chapter argues that market theories of religion that are based on the notion of “rational choice” do not contribute to our understanding of the transcendental value of money and markets in our social life. Such theories depend on a too narrow interpretation of “rationality” and neglect...
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By Bill Maurer
Published: 14 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375173-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7517-3
... After surveying recent innovations in payment technologies, from Square to bitcoin, this chapter poses the question, how does our understanding of money shift if we focus on the act of payment instead of the means of exchange? Exchange is about drawing equivalences. Payment is about...
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By Bill Maurer
Published: 14 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375173-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7517-3
... What is money? This chapter provides an overview of classic and contemporary theories, and shifts the focus to where is money, and when is money? In introducing how the mobile phone became a key site for innovation in money, it suggests we learn from research into the diverse uses of the mobile...
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By Bill Maurer
Published: 14 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375173-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7517-3
... of exchange. People’s money lives are diverse. Cashlessness, a vision promoted by many money innovators, may only be obtainable for the relatively well off. And the cultural and social traditions of payment run deep. cashlessness cash payments industry unbanked underbanked ...
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By Bill Maurer
Published: 14 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375173-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7517-3
... This chapter provides an alternative account on the origins of money. It suggests two revisions to the long-held belief that money originated due to the inconveniences of barter. First, money is more properly understood as a recording device than as a valuable token used to equilibrate values...
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By Bill Maurer
Published: 14 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375173-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7517-3
... This chapter presents the diverse use cases for money. “Use case” is a term taken from the technology industry, where scenarios are played out of how a piece of equipment or software might actually work once unpredictable humans are added to the mix. This chapter presents the use cases of money...
Published: 14 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375173
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7517-3
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By Kojin Karatani, Michael K. Bourdaghs
Published: 05 March 2014
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376682-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7668-2
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By Carolyn Hardin
Published: 09 July 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021605-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2160-5
Series: Spin-Offs
Published: 12 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027591-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2759-1
... denizens of Los Angeles. Offering a series of close readings, the chapter reveals the series’ preoccupation with money and the ways in which economics are most certainly tied to questions of power. The detective enters into a battle of wits with the murderers he investigates, invariably playing a cat...
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By Myriam Jimeno, Andy Klatt
Series: Narrating Native Histories
Published: 10 February 2014
DOI: 10.1215/9780822377351-026
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7735-1
Published: 02 October 2013
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7744-3
...Money and Measurements ...
Published: 01 January 1995
DOI: 10.1215/9780822379867-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7986-7
Published: 20 February 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822383482-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8348-2
Series: [sic] Series
Published: 27 May 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822386490-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8649-0
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By William G. Anlyan, M. D.
Published: 01 January 2004
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385912-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8591-2
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By Pablo Piccato
Published: 05 September 2001
DOI: 10.1215/9780822380719-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8071-9
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By Amy Chazkel
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 07 June 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822394020-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9402-0
Series: Asia-Pacific
Published: 04 March 2013
DOI: 10.1215/9780822393993
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9399-3
Published: 01 January 1997
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9780-9
...Marketing Transfiguration<subtitle>Money/Politics/Regionalism</subtitle> ...