New Money

"Our daily transactions—cash, credit, points, or promises—commit us to communities, identities, and politics on the most powerful social media platform of all: the payment system. Money talks, and Swartz's book reveals its conversations, declarations, commands, and lies."—Finn Brunton, author of Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency

“New Money is an insightful, well-researched, and well-written history of the nature and uses of money. Swartz shows the profound effect the Fintech revolution will have on society and each one of us.” —Dee Hock, Founder and CEO Emeritus, VISA, Inc.
 

"In an engaging and timely work, brimming with fascinating anecdotes and historical and literary references, Lana Swartz brilliantly illustrates how financial technologies are quietly transforming how we socialize and what it means to belong."—Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It  

”In this groundbreaking social history, Swartz illuminates the hidden histories of payment systems and the cultural politics of transactional technologies. She reveals above all that money is a medium of communication.”—Bill Maurer, editor of A Cultural History of Money
 

“A masterful, grand tour of the communities and imaginaries that shape our transactional lives and the many identities we carry around in our wallets. New Money forces us to consider who is in control of our financial identity and who sets the rules for how our money works.”—Patrick Murck, Co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation