Tokens The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform by Rachel O'Dwyer
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- date: 10 October 2023
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Tokens The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform by Rachel O'Dwyer | 745.48 KB
English | 378 Pages
Title: Tokens
Author: Rachel O'Dwyer
Year: 2023
Description:
**Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year**
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Platform capitalism is coming for the money in your pocket
Wherever you look, money is being re-placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money-like things: phone credit, shares, gift vouchers, game tokens, customer data—the list goes on. But what does it mean when online platforms become the new banks? What new types of control and discrimination emerge when money is tied to specific apps or actions, politics or identities?
Tokens opens up this new and expanding world. Exploring the history of extra-monetary economies, Rachel O'Dwyer shows that private and grassroots tokens have always haunted the real economy. But as the large tech platforms issue new money-like instruments, tokens are suddenly everywhere. Amazon's Turk workers are getting paid in gift cards. Online streamers trade in wishlists. Foreign remittances are sent via phone credit. Bitcoin,...
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**Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year**
—-
Platform capitalism is coming for the money in your pocket
Wherever you look, money is being re-placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money-like things: phone credit, shares, gift vouchers, game tokens, customer data—the list goes on. But what does it mean when online platforms become the new banks? What new types of control and discrimination emerge when money is tied to specific apps or actions, politics or identities?
Tokens opens up this new and expanding world. Exploring the history of extra-monetary economies, Rachel O'Dwyer shows that private and grassroots tokens have always haunted the real economy. But as the large tech platforms issue new money-like instruments, tokens are suddenly everywhere. Amazon's Turk workers are getting paid in gift cards. Online streamers trade in wishlists. Foreign remittances are sent via phone credit. Bitcoin,...
DOWNLOAD:
https://rapidgator.net/file/af36520ea1ed882290bcdd0101b3c985/Tokens__The_Future_of_Money_in_the_Age_of_the_Platform_by_Rachel_ODwyer.
https://k2s.cc/file/456167621d803/Tokens__The_Future_of_Money_in_the_Age_of_the_Platform_by_Rachel_ODwyer.
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