Comment on Alternative Monies and the Demand for Media of Exchange
Professors Santomero and Seater have put considerable energy into building and analyzing a carefully crafted mathematical model with a narrow microbanking focus. They explore the representative consumer's willingness to substitute electronic money (which they portray as plastic-based "smart cards" with no nontransactional informational processing or communications usages) for paper-based "traditional money." Their model concerns itself only with what we could call pocket money and "pocket electronic platforms." The question I wish to explore in my remarks is where can we go from here: How can this first-cut model be made to cast more light on the problem of persuading households to dive deeply into electronic banking?
Digital Economy: Impacts, Influences and Challenges
Digital Economy provides information about the socioeconomic aspects of the digital economy. This set of 18 essays covers the effects of digital economy on business transactions, technology and culture, as well as on education. It also covers various aspects of global production, trade, and investment and the effects of the Internet. The chapters review best practices from concept to development, through implementation and evaluation. This book is one of the few books that looks at the digital economy from a socio economic angle, offering perspectives from scholars and practitioners of digital economics around the world.
The development of biological systematics : Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, nature, and the natural system
A reevaluation of the history of biological systematics that discusses the formative years of the so-called natural system of classification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Shows how classifications came to be treated as conventions; systematic practice was not linked to clearly articulated theory; there was general confusion over the "shape" of nature; botany, elements of natural history, and systematics were conflated; and systematics took a position near the bottom of the hierarchy of sciences.