Announcing a new podcast in the Tomorrow’s Transactions series. Bill Maurer is a cultural anthropologist who conducts research on law, property, money and finance, particularly new and experimental financial forms and their legal implications. He is head of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at UC Irvine.
He has written widely on the anthropology of money, finance and property for journals such as Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, Annual Reviews in Anthropology, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and other venues.
He is currently conducting research on the shifting regulatory landscape in the offshore Caribbean; innovations in Native American banking (with Justin B. Richland); and the cultural and legal implications of new forms of electronic money and payment systems.
Edited 13th October 2013.
