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Author: Bill Maurer
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 17.80cm
Weight: 0.249kg
ISBN: 9780822359562
ISBN 10: 0822359561
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 27 November 2015
Audience:
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A lucid and entertaining work which shines a light on many of the complexities of money and payments. Bill Maurer makes us realize--and remember--that money is not just economics and process, but also an integral part of human life, and that the psychology and behavioral dynamics around money are just as important to understand as the business aspects. A must-read! --Carol Coye Benson, Glenbrook Partners
A lucid and entertaining work that shines a light on many of the complexities of money and payments. Bill Maurer makes us realize and remember that money is not just economics and process, but also an integral part of human life, and that the psychology and behavioral dynamics around money are just as important to understand as the business aspects. A must-read! --Carol Coye Benson, Glenbrook Partners
As an anthropologist, Bill Maurer has spent the past two decades researching the cultural and social dynamics of money. In his latest book, he manages to condense his life's research into one gripping, bite-sized read that is accessible to a diverse range of readers from the artist and software programmer to the financial regulator or economist. -- Scott Burns * The Independent Review * This little book is the exact size it needed to be to explore the array of new payment methods, currencies and other money technology innovations that have erupted over the past decade, alongside with more accessible and cheaper smartphone, tablet and other communications and computing technologies.... Entering electronic money contracts without understanding the problems and solutions they represent is risky both for the isolated farmer in Kenya and for a Silicon Valley executive, so both would benefit from this book. -- Anna Faktorovich * Pennsylvania Literary Journal * In the end, How Would You Like to Pay? is of interest less for what it says about the future (the author makes no predictions -- which, given the Isis debacle, seems prudent) than for how it encourages the reader to pay attention to nuances of the present. It's a primer of the anthropological imagination -- and a reminder that money is too important a matter to leave to the economists. -- Scott McLemee * Inside Higher Ed * A lucid and entertaining work that shines a light on many of the complexities of money and payments. Bill Maurer makes us realize-and remember-that money is not just economics and process, but also an integral part of human life, and that the psychology and behavioral dynamics around money are just as important to understand as the business aspects. A must-read! -- Carol Coye Benson, Glenbrook Partners
Author Information
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.
