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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Edward CastronovaPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.558kg ISBN: 9780300186130ISBN 10: 0300186134 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 16 June 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews"“A brilliant, fresh, and accessible look not just at one of the fastest-growing online trends, but at one of humanity’s most enduring institutions.”—Joshua Fairfield, Professor of Law, Washington and Lee School of Law ""In Wildcat Currency, Castronova explains with clarity how the future of money owes more to virtual worlds and video games than to traditional financial institutions and governments. Will reading this provocative book pay off? You can bank on it!""--Kevin Werbach, co-author, For the Win: How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business ""Edward Castronova raises questions and presents basic examples from computer games, airline miles, loyalty programs, data programs, Paypal and other means to transmit payments, invent monies and near monies in the brave new world of computerized network exchange.""--Martin Shubik, Yale University “A controversial thesis with potentially broader implications for the future of banking and global corporations.” —Kirkus Reviews * Kirkus Reviews *" 'Edward Castronva's Wildcat Currency [is] a lucid skip through the proliferation of digital dosh and the dizzying implications of a world where the old norms of what we think of as money are fast being done over by the internet. . .Castronova's skill is to dance around that space where real and virtual currencies collide, leading to what he predicts will be 'a rather wild time in monetary affairs.''--Alistair Osborne, The Times --Alistair Osborne The Times (07/19/2014) A controversial thesis with potentially broader implications for the future of banking and global corporations. -Kirkus Reviews * Kirkus Reviews * A brilliant, fresh, and accessible look not just at one of the fastest-growing online trends, but at one of humanity's most enduring institutions. -Joshua Fairfield, Professor of Law, Washington and Lee School of Law In Wildcat Currency, Castronova explains with clarity how the future of money owes more to virtual worlds and video games than to traditional financial institutions and governments. Will reading this provocative book pay off? You can bank on it! --Kevin Werbach, co-author, For the Win: How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business Edward Castronova raises questions and presents basic examples from computer games, airline miles, loyalty programs, data programs, Paypal and other means to transmit payments, invent monies and near monies in the brave new world of computerized network exchange. --Martin Shubik, Yale University Author InformationEdward Castronova is professor of media and cognitive science at Indiana University. His previous publications include Synthetic Worlds and Exodus to the Virtual World. He lives in Bloomington, IN. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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