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A new vision of money as a communication technology that creates
and sustains invisible-often exclusive-communities "In an engaging
and timely work, brimming with fascinating anecdotes and historical
and literary references, Lana Swartz brilliantly illustrates how
financial technologies are quietly transforming how we socialize
and what it means to belong."-Jonathan Zittrain, author of The
Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It One of the basic
structures of everyday life, money is at its core a communication
media. Payment systems-cash, card, app, or Bitcoin-are
informational and symbolic tools that integrate us into, or exclude
us from, the society that surrounds us. Examining the social
politics of financial technologies, Lana Swartz reveals what's at
stake when we pay. This accessible and insightful analysis comes at
a moment of disruption: from "fin-tech" startups to
cryptocurrencies, a variety of technologies are poised to unseat
traditional financial infrastructures. Swartz explains these
changes, traces their longer histories, and demonstrates their
consequences. She shows just how important these invisible systems
are. Getting paid and paying determines whether or not you can put
food on the table. The data that payment produces is uniquely
revelatory-and newly valuable. New forms of money create new forms
of identity, new forms of community, and new forms of power.
Combining the intellectual history of the Enlightenment,
Atlantic history, and the history of the French Revolution, Paul
Cheney explores the political economy of globalization in
eighteenth-century France.
The discovery of the New World and the rise of Europe's Atlantic
economy brought unprecedented wealth. It also reordered the
political balance among European states and threatened age-old
social hierarchies within them. In this charged context, the French
developed a "science of commerce" that aimed to benefit from this
new wealth while containing its revolutionary effects. Montesquieu
became a towering authority among reformist economic and political
thinkers by developing a politics of fusion intended to reconcile
France's aristocratic society and monarchical state with the needs
and risks of international commerce. The Seven Years' War proved
the weakness of this model, and after this watershed reforms that
could guarantee shared prosperity at home and in the colonies
remained elusive. Once the Revolution broke out in 1789, the
contradictions that attended the growth of France's Atlantic
economy helped to bring down the constitutional monarchy.
Drawing upon the writings of philosophes, diplomats, consuls of
commerce, and merchants, Cheney rewrites the history of political
economy in the Enlightenment era and provides a new interpretation
of the relationship between capitalism and the French
Revolution.
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Customs Tariffs
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- wealth And Its Uses, In The (butterfield) Practical Course, Union College, Schenectady, N.y. business, Founder's Day, 1896, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. With The Story Of How He Served His Business
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