Thanks, Michael, for Kurke's title hardly available in the US at Amazon but available for 31 € in Italy, and 43 € in Germany so much for globalisation aldo On 19 December 2010 05:37, michael perelman <[email protected]>wrote:
> Now that the US is tightening the financial noose around Assange, the > New York Times has an editorial calling for the replacement of cash with > electronic money. Kurke, Leslie. 1999. Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: > The Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece (Princeton: Princeton > University Press) describes how Herodotus saw money as a way to > undermine hierarchies. Finally, the military agrees. > > Lipow, Jonathan. 2010. "Turn In Your Bin Ladens." New York Times (18 > December): p. A 23. > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/opinion/18lipow.html?ref=opinion > > "Nowadays, terrorist networks have become important users of cash. No > organization understands this better than the United States military. > During the early years of coalition operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, > American forces distributed cash liberally. From 2003 and 2008, about > $19 billion in physical money was handed out to Iraqi suppliers and > contractors." > > "But the military has gradually realized that the anonymity of cash > makes it easy for terrorists and insurgents to smuggle in money and make > purchases without a trace. That’s why for the past few years the > military has been striving to replace its cash transactions with > electronic fund transfers and debit card payments in the hopes of > achieving a “cashless battlefield,” in the words of Peter Kunkel, a > former assistant secretary of the Army." > > Soon the government will be able to tell when a 7 year old buys some > bubble gum. > -- > Michael Perelman > Economics Department > California State University > Chico, CA > 95929 > > [email protected] > > 530 898 5321 > fax 530 898 5901 > http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Aldo Matteucci 65, Pourtalèsstr. CH 3074 MURI b. Bern Switzerland [email protected]
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