Data Money: Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains

Author:   Koray Caliskan
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
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9780231209588


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 August 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Koray Caliskan
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
ISBN:  

9780231209588


ISBN 10:   0231209584
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 August 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Tables and Figures Acknowledgments 1. The Historical Novelty of Data Money and Its Makers, Markets, and Regulation 2. The Materiality of Data Money and the Infrastructure and Taxonomy of Blockchains 3. Understanding Cryptocurrency Exchange Platforms and Markets 4. Global Cryptocurrency Communities as Data Money Makers 5. The Emergence and Demise of a Cryptocurrency Community 6. A New Framework for Cryptocurrency Taxation and Exchange Platform Regulation 7. What Is to Be Done with Crypto Economies? Notes Bibliography Index

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Data Money is essential reading for anyone wants to understand the new world of cryptocurrencies. Caliskan has a genuine insider's understanding of that world, and writes about it with verve and insight. His new book is a vitally important important contribution by one of the most exciting scholars in the new generation of economic sociologists. -- Donald MacKenzie, author of <i>Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets</i>


Data Money is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the new world of cryptocurrencies. Caliskan has a genuine insider's understanding of that world, and writes about it with verve and insight. His book is a vitally important contribution by one of the most exciting scholars in the new generation of economic sociologists. -- Donald MacKenzie, author of <i>Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets</i> With impressive clarity—drawing from striking interviews, field work, and big data analysis—Data Money develops a pioneering analysis of cryptocurrencies, while transcending disciplinary boundaries and setting a new agenda for future research. Thank you, Koray Caliskan, for helping us make sense of the social world of money in the twenty-first century! -- Viviana A. Zelizer, author of <i>The Social Meaning of Money and Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy</i>


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Koray Caliskan is associate professor of strategic design and management at Parsons School of Design, the New School. He is the author of Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity (2010). Caliskan’s research on which this book was based was selected as a winner of the Breakthrough of the Year 2021 in Social Sciences and Humanities by the Falling Walls Foundation.

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