qurestion did u read it cover to cover???? aldo On 19 December 2010 08:25, Aldo Matteucci <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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] > > -- Aldo Matteucci 65, Pourtalèsstr. CH 3074 MURI b. Bern Switzerland [email protected]
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