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... error found on the political Left (confusing money and markets with capitalism) and explores an alternative framework for understanding “cash payment” and the socialities with which it is associated. New thinking emerging in the domain of social policy provides both an object of analysis...

... 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...

... payments industry money exchange morality ...

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... In this chapter, we meet two semifictional characters: one conducts her life almost exclusively in noncash means of payment—credit and debit cards, direct deposit, and online payment services. The other lives an almost wholly cash-based life, along with other material stores of wealth and means...

... Innovators in payment make big claims for how their new applications and services will profoundly change money. But few of their services have taken off. One that has, and that has had a huge impact on how “money disruptors” imagine they can remake the future of money, is M-Pesa. M-Pesa...

... This chapter explores the question of how the distributive demands that are especially visible in discussions around mineral wealth (and that typically focus on demands for the nationalization of industries) are being brought to bear on the new social payments that the previous chapters have...

... This chapter focuses on the payments that dons exact from small and large entrepreneurs, often in exchange for protection. While these transactions are often understood as extortion, both entrepreneurs and dons go to significant lengths to narrate and perform these economic exchanges...

... Most people around the world buy airtime for their mobile phones on an as-needed basis, instead of having a subscription to a cellular service. In some parts of the world, people started sending airtime credits to one another as a form of payment. This unanticipated use case of the mobile phone...

... of political identity and questions of social justice. People promoting digital payment to uplift the poor or technological solutions for financial inclusion are not exempt from this political and moral charge. This chapter argues that money innovators must acknowledge their position in a long history...

... the struggles around reparations that followed the 1996 peace accords, including the way that money supports, even as it is not equivalent to, people in survivors’ quests for justice and for repair. The chapter, telling of Guatemala’s National Reparations Program, which counts beneficiaries, payments, and goods...

... Efforts to use law to combat the problem of “corporate impunity” risk legitimating the legal fiction of the “corporate person” while turning compensation payments into externalities to be brought into companies’ cost-benefit analyses. Nevertheless, law can be an important site of immanent...

... involved in the management of band affairs. Musicians come and go, often in disputes over payment. Mbira player Chartwell Dutiro joins the band, shepherding mbiras into the Blacks Unlimited stage lineup in a lasting way. The era produces ground-breaking new music, notably Mapfumo’s tribute to Zimbabwe’s...

... of Bhundu Boys star Biggie Tembo and Mapfumo’s reaction are described. Back in Zimbabwe, Jonah Sithole, nearing his own death, rejoins the band for the third and last time. The chapter concludes with politics as Robert Mugabe’s coerced payment to the families of “war veterans” triggers over a decade...

... affairs. Musicians come and go, often in disputes over payment. Mbira player Chartwell Dutiro joins the band, shepherding mbiras into the Blacks Unlimited stage lineup in a lasting way. The era produces ground-breaking new music, notably Mapfumo’s tribute to Zimbabwe’s war-torn neighbor Mozambique...

... The remarkable rise of the Tea Party and its project to make a specific economic narrative out of common sense provides the material for a second case study. According to this narrative, jobs are created by the rich; welfare payments simply reward moochers; and, in the distorted sound bite...

..., payments, and goods distribution, and of paradigmatic court cases that count perpetrators’ payback in coin and time, traces how “financializing” these relationalities becomes a mundane infrastructure while remaining fundamentally weird. reparations numbers and colonialism indigenous counting...