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Can I read Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (Infrastructures) on EtoBox?
Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (Infrastructures) by Bill Maurer and Lana Swartz is a business book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (Infrastructures) about?
Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string. Museums are full of the coins, notes, beads, shells, stones, and other objects people have exchanged for millennia. But what about the debris, the things that allow a transaction to take place and are left in its wake? How would a museum go about curating our scrawls on electronic keypads, the receipts wadded in our wallets, that vast information infrastr
Who reads Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (Infrastructures)?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Bill Maurer and Lana Swartz
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262035750
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- History, Business, Economics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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