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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Regulation as Retrospective Ethnography: Mobile Money and the Arts of Cash

Does the growing interest and investment in mobile money signal an end to the use of cash and coin? In a recent article, IMTFI Director Bill Maurer writes that predictions of cash's demise are a bit premature. By looking at how financial regulations deal with the way that people make payments and store money in their everyday lives, Maurer argues that we gain access to a “retrospective ethnography of potential” and see how people have come to integrate mobile money into their monetary practices alongside of cash.


To read the full article, click here.