Before Babylon, beyond Bitcoin : from money that we understand to money that understands us 9781907994661, 1907994661


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Table of contents :
Foreword by Andrew Haldane
Foreword by Brett King
Preface
Introduction
part i
the past: money that we understand
Chapter 1
Money is a technology
Chapter 2
1066 and all that
Chapter 3
Money and markets
Chapter 4
Crises and progress
part ii
the present: money that we think we understand
Chapter 5
Goodbye Pony Express
Chapter 6
Consumer technology
Chapter 7
Moving to mobile
Chapter 8
The case against cash
Chapter 9
Why keep cash?
Chapter 10
Thinking about the cashless economy
Chapter 11
After the gold rush
part iii
the future: money that ­understands us
Chapter 12 Seeds of the futureChapter 13
Counting on cryptography
Chapter 14
Who will make money?
Chapter 15
Reimagining money
Chapter 16
Back to the future
Chapter 17
The next money
Chapter 18
Coda: a manifesto for cashlessness
Appendix: around the cashless world
Bibliography

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