Introduction: who this book is for -- Disruptions in money -- What is money? -- Two scenarios: a day in the money life -- The evolution of money -- Use cases for money -- What's in your wallet? -- What can you do with a mobile phone? -- Airtime -- Monetary repertoires

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...