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The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers--And the Coming Cashless Society

by David Wolman  · 14 Feb 2012  · 275pp  · 77,017 words

many people loathe the prospect of a cashless society. “I didn’t want to write

we use. To get back on the cashless society track, the next morning in nearby Covent

cashless cabin policy of many major airlines is case in point. Another example is an uppity Manhattan restaurant called Commerce. Explaining his decision to quit accepting cash payments

payment for small-value transactions. Finding an equally trusted, fast, and universally accepted medium of exchange to unseat cash’s place within this niche constitutes the final mile before arriving at a fully cashless society

concerns about compromised privacy in a cashless world. She kept reminding me that a

Farrar, “The Economics of a Cashless Society: An Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Payment Instruments,” Washington, D.C.:

Swartz, Hahn, and Layne-Farrar, “The Economics of a Cashless Society,” p. 24. 41 “New York Restaurant Loses Its Appetite

a Cashless Society,” p. 6; and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/6968143/Is-a-cashless-society-on

-Farrar, The Economics of a Cashless Society: An Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Payment Instruments (Washington, D.C.: AEI

BBC News, July 17, 2010; also “Central Bank Wants Cashless Society,” nationmultimedia.com, October 27, 2009. 17 Hitachi group,

, techies, dreamers—and the coming cashless society / David Wolman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical

Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons From the World’s Limits

by Richard Davies  · 4 Sep 2019  · 412pp  · 128,042 words

to be a cashless economy. Atef explains

Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy

by Jeremias Prassl  · 7 May 2018  · 491pp  · 77,650 words

payment systems render the entire transaction cashless. This is the ‘platform paradox’: gig-economy

Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy

by Alexandrea J. Ravenelle  · 12 Mar 2019  · 349pp  · 98,309 words

economy is thought to be fueled by the convergence of three technological advancements: smartphone ubiquity; secure, cashless payment systems

cashless payments

economy services, 166–68; hosts and, 19–20, 165; human and social capital, 183; participant recruitment and methodology, 42 career opportunities, 23, 36, 50, 56, 58–59, 162–63, 162–64. See also entrepreneurship cashless payment systems

economy, 26; job destruction, 186; technology as secondary, 191–92. See also cashless payment systems; customer review sites; smartphones technology focus: apps, 6; contactless payment

Fixed: Why Personal Finance is Broken and How to Make it Work for Everyone

by John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai  · 25 Jul 2025

cashless economy. See, for example, Anna Hammarberg, “Cashless society,” January 10, 2020, https://www.business-sweden.com/insights/articles/cashless-society

Financial technology adoption: Network externalities of cashless payments in Mexico,” American Economic Review

The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance

by Eswar S. Prasad  · 27 Sep 2021  · 661pp  · 185,701 words

cashless society.… All activity in the black economy

cashless society in the world. Björn Ulvaeus’s battle to rid the Swedish economy

cashless economy

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cashless payments, or working with Ant Group to promote ‘cashless

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cashless-economy

Cashless Economy

Cashless Society: The Swedish Route to the Future of Cash Payments

Cashless, but Less Cash: Economic Justice and the Future of UK Payments

Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets

by Brett Scott  · 4 Jul 2022  · 308pp  · 85,850 words

economy. We are witnessing the automation of global finance, a process that first requires the physical money in our wallets to be replaced with digital money controlled by the banking sector – a scenario euphemistically called ‘the cashless society

payment cards. The ‘cashless society

that a cashless society is inevitable

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payments, which means the banking industry – in general – has much to gain. Dip into the insider world of banking – read industry magazines or attend banking conferences – and you will find widespread disavowal of cash. For example, in June 2019 the Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan declared that ‘we want a cashless society

cashless’). In 2020 this demonisation was further accelerated when big retailers took a lead from payments

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cashless future that people would arrive at whether they wanted to or not. Not surprisingly, this gave the Indian digital payments

cashlessness and the original story. In Aesop’s fable, the hunter and horse kill the stag. But the digital payments

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cashless society’ one of those options disappears, leaving bank chips as the only choice. ‘Cashless society

cashless society’), and to the specific case of a single digital payment (a ‘cashless payment

payments plan the ‘cashless payments

cashless welfare card, but such outcry will not be possible in many other countries. When it comes to payments

payments vault is growing transnationally across borders. In preceding chapters I cast doubt on the accuracy of the ‘cashless

economy. Because that new situation is getting baked in as the default in all systems – for example, parking meters suddenly ‘go cashless

payments encourage fast and detached spending that more easily leads to indebtedness, but that is part of the point: in its ‘benefits of going cashless

payments in a self-reinforcing loop while bougie ‘cashless

payments is that it has not yet engulfed everyone. I appeared alongside a Citigroup executive on a media discussion, and when he was asked what difficulties could emerge from a cashless society

cashless society – where digital participation is forced – finding yourself blacklisted on shared digital credit-scoring or fraud detection systems could mean being shut out of the economy

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cashless society’ because it is a cutting-edge example of how individuals experience themselves ‘choosing’ to use something – digital payments

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payments volume: See Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, ‘2018 Findings from the Diary of Consumer Payment Choice’ 15 Nov. 2018, https://www.frbsf.org/cash/files/federal-reserve-cpo-2018-diary-of-consumer-payment-choice-110118.pdf ‘we want a cashless society

’: Javier E. David, ‘Bank of America CEO: “We want a cashless society

”’, Yahoo!Finance, 19 June 2019, https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bank-of-america-brian-moynihan-cashless-society

cashless’: See ‘Meet the Cashless Challenge winners’ at https://usa.visa.com/visa-everywhere/innovation/visa-cashless-challenge-winners.html Payments

Cashless Is Better for the Environment’, written by digital payments company Pomelo Pay https://www.pomelopay.com/blog/cashless

cashless’ website, Visa reports: See ‘Are cashless payments good for business?’ https://usa.visa.com/visa-everywhere/innovation/benefits-of-going-cashless

payments companies and, 39–41 refusal of, 29–30, 40, 41, 43, 84, 128, 133 social class and, 91–9 tax evasion and, 42, 43, 45, 46 thresholds, 42 transactional usage, 36 cash-in-transit companies, 62 ‘cash or card?’, 49, 72 ‘Cashfree and Proud’, 40 Cashless Catalyst, 127–8 Cashless Challenge, 40 cashless society

reserve banking, 70 France cashless payments strategy, 43 Frankfurt,

the cashless society for

The Currency Cold War: Cash and Cryptography, Hash Rates and Hegemony

by David G. W. Birch  · 14 Apr 2020  · 247pp  · 60,543 words

Change I don’t think a ‘cashless society’ means a society in which notes

payments, where paper money is vanishing and consumers pay for everything with smartphones. China is well on the way to becoming a cashless society

, I do not think a ‘cashless society’ means a society in which notes

. Loh. 2018. Bitcoin not the answer to a cashless society. Financial Times, 13 March. Cohen, B. 2015.

R. 2019. Are we sleepwalking into a cashless society? Central Banking, 27 December. URL: http://bit

Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations

by Nandan Nilekani  · 4 Feb 2016  · 332pp  · 100,601 words

use mobile banking and make cashless payments? Moving beyond the financial sector

cashless India In the accompanying diagram, we sketch out a road map for the transition to a cashless economy

contribution towards a cashless society is the launch of a Unified Payments Interface (UPI

in contributing to the growth of cashless payments in India.’ IMHCL is the

discussed the roadmap to a cashless economy with electronic payments. MicroATMs will bring banking

Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers—and the Coming Cashless Society. Boston: Da Capo Press, p. 353. 12. 2015

The Social Life of Money

by Nigel Dodd  · 14 May 2014  · 700pp  · 201,953 words

cashless forms of payment that we make. Those forms of payments

Techies, Dreamers—and the Coming Cashless Society, Philadelphia, Da Capo Press.

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