Top Highlights

• Fernand Braudel counted money as one of the fundamental “structures of everyday life.”
• Transactions are embedded in and reflective of social, cultural, and relational meanings.
• is an essential information infrastructure
• This is a book about the cultural politics of transactional technologies. It offers a new way to think about money: as a communication medium dependent on particular technologies.
• The philosopher Immanuel Kant found money to be “the greatest and most useable for all the means of human communication through things.”