How can we imagine and perform an anthropological practice with business, that is, not from a distanced perspective but through a mutual infolding and engagement? How might such an arrangement then be exemplary for novel economic experiments of the kind anthropologists often describe? Reflecting...

Foreword: dead money / Bruce Sterling -- Introduction: curating transactional things / Bill Maurer and Lana Swartz -- Dongles / Scott Mainwaring -- Checks / Lisa Servon -- Tattoos Lynn gamble -- Mag stripe / Dave Stearns -- Ledgers / Taylor Nelms -- Dogecoin / Sarah Jeong -- Khipu / Gary Urton...

While it has often been described as a money transfer product, when mobile money reaches scale it can also be seen as a network infrastructure and platform facilitating the exchange of cash and electronic value between various economic actors including clients, businesses, the government, and...