The Book of Payments Historical and Contemporary Views on the Cashless Society [Hardcover]

This book examines the nature of retail financial transaction infrastructures. Contributions assume a long-term outlook in their exploration of the key financial processes and systems that support a global transition to a cashless economy. The volume offers both modern and historic accounts that demonstrate the constantly changing role of payment instruments. It brings together different theoretical approaches to the study, re-examining and forecasting changes in retail payment systems. Chapters explore a global transition to a cashless society and contemplate future alternatives to cash, cheques and plastic, featuring the perspectives of academics from different disciplines in conversation and industry participants from six continents. Readers are invited to discover the innovation in payment systems and how it co-evolves with changes in society and organisations through personal, corporate and governmental processes.

Chapter 1) Pre1900 utopian visions of the cashless society; Matthew Hollow.- Chapter 2) The Banknote: a Momentous Innovation; Yolanda Blasco-Martel and Carles Sudri?-Triay.- Chapter 3) Innovating means of payment in Chile, 1840s  1860; C?sar Ross.- Chapter 4) The Many Monies of King Cotton: Domestic and Foreign Currencies in New Orleans, 1856-1860; Manuel Alejandro Bautista Gonz?lez.- Chapter 5) The Art of Lending in the Pampas: Commercial Credit and Financial Intermediation in Argentina, 19001930; Andrea Lluch.- Chapter 6) Matching cash and kind: Argentinas experimentation with multiple currencies; Georgina M. Gomez.- Chapter 7) A South American Experience on Bartering: the case of Tradaq in Brazil; Jos? E. Rivero.- Chapter 8) Dematerialization and the cashless society: a look backward, a look sideward; Patrice Baubeau.- Chapter 9) Origins of the Modern Concept of a Cashless Society, 1950s-1970s; Bernardo B?tiz-Lazo, Thomas Haiglã¤