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
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we use. To get back on the cashless society track, the next morning in nearby Covent
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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
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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
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concerns about compromised privacy in a cashless world. She kept reminding me that a
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Farrar, “The Economics of a Cashless Society: An Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Payment Instruments,” Washington, D.C.:
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Swartz, Hahn, and Layne-Farrar, “The Economics of a Cashless Society,” p. 24. 41 “New York Restaurant Loses Its Appetite
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a Cashless Society,” p. 6; and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/6968143/Is-a-cashless-society-on
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-Farrar, The Economics of a Cashless Society: An Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Payment Instruments (Washington, D.C.: AEI
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BBC News, July 17, 2010; also “Central Bank Wants Cashless Society,” nationmultimedia.com, October 27, 2009. 17 Hitachi group,
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, 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
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cashless payments
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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
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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
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
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payment cards. The ‘cashless society
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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
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cashless’). In 2020 this demonisation was further accelerated when big retailers took a lead from payments
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cashless 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
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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
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cashless society’), and to the specific case of a single digital payment (a ‘cashless payment
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payments plan the ‘cashless payments
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cashless welfare card, but such outcry will not be possible in many other countries. When it comes to payments
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payments vault is growing transnationally across borders. In preceding chapters I cast doubt on the accuracy of the ‘cashless
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economy. Because that new situation is getting baked in as the default in all systems – for example, parking meters suddenly ‘go cashless
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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
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payments in a self-reinforcing loop while bougie ‘cashless
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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
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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
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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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cashless society
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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
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’: Javier E. David, ‘Bank of America CEO: “We want a cashless society
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”’, Yahoo!Finance, 19 June 2019, https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bank-of-america-brian-moynihan-cashless-society
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cashless’: See ‘Meet the Cashless Challenge winners’ at https://usa.visa.com/visa-everywhere/innovation/visa-cashless-challenge-winners.html Payments
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Cashless Is Better for the Environment’, written by digital payments company Pomelo Pay https://www.pomelopay.com/blog/cashless
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cashless’ website, Visa reports: See ‘Are cashless payments good for business?’ https://usa.visa.com/visa-everywhere/innovation/benefits-of-going-cashless
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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
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reserve banking, 70 France cashless payments strategy, 43 Frankfurt,
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the cashless society for
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
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cashless society in the world. Björn Ulvaeus’s battle to rid the Swedish economy
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cashless economy
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cashless economy
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cashless payments, or working with Ant Group to promote ‘cashless
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Cashless Economy
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Cashless Society: The Swedish Route to the Future of Cash Payments
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Cashless, but Less Cash: Economic Justice and the Future of UK Payments
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
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payments, where paper money is vanishing and consumers pay for everything with smartphones. China is well on the way to becoming a cashless society
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, I do not think a ‘cashless society’ means a society in which notes
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. Loh. 2018. Bitcoin not the answer to a cashless society. Financial Times, 13 March. Cohen, B. 2015.
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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
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cashless India In the accompanying diagram, we sketch out a road map for the transition to a cashless economy
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contribution towards a cashless society is the launch of a Unified Payments Interface (UPI
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in contributing to the growth of cashless payments in India.’ IMHCL is the
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discussed the roadmap to a cashless economy with electronic payments. MicroATMs will bring banking
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Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers—and the Coming Cashless Society. Boston: Da Capo Press, p. 353. 12. 2015
The Irrational Bundle
by Dan Ariely · 3 Apr 2013 · 898pp · 266,274 words
a degree, just imagine what can happen as we become an increasingly cashless society. Could it be that stealing a credit card number is much less
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197–207 car recommendation software, “fixing” answers in, 166–67 Cary, Apoth E., 246 cashless society, implications for dishonesty in, 34 Catch Me If You Can (Abagnale), 173 certificates for
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
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attempt to expand mobile banking and demonetize the country’s gray-market economy, India recalled 86 percent of its cash. Vietnam wants retail to be 90 percent cashless by 2020. Sweden, where over 80 percent of all transactions are
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Cashless Societies: Shifting Asia,” here: https://www.ubs.com/content/dam/WealthManagementAmericas/cio-impact/shifting%20in%20asia.pdf. This specific fact comes from p. 19. Vietnam wants retail to be 90 percent cashless by 2020: “Cashless Payment Posts Double-Digit Growth,” Viet Nam News, July 13, 2019. See: https://vietnamnews.vn/economy/522587/cashless-payment
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