Beyond the cash nexus
Beyond the cash nexus
- November 25, 2015
- Bill Maurer, anthropology professor and social sciences dean, is quoted by Inside Higher Ed Nov. 25, 2015
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From Inside Higher Ed:
“Ecosystem” seems an interesting choice of words, in this context. [Bill] Maurer,
an anthropologist who is also dean of the school of social sciences at the University
of California, Irvine, also uses it -- but in a much thicker sense than as a synonym,
more or less, for “market.” The smartphone wallet represents only one means of mobile
payment, limited mainly to the world’s more prosperous sectors.
For the full story, please visit https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/11/25/review-bill-maurer-how-would-you-pay-how-technology-changing-future-money.
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