From the monthly archives: March 2012
Open season for swaps!
Here are the groups for the contest tomorrow. O no! Cruel fate! Did you get the wrong group? Read on.
More... →By 4:30 pm today Ben Mazzotta will send the cashless/cardless assignments.
Those who have signed up are welcome to trade.
Those who have not signed up have till noon (12:00 pm Friday) tomorrow but you will not be able to trade.
At 4:00 pm the contest goes live! You will all know if you are [...]
More... →Nick Sullivan’s new book is out! Go get yourself a copy of Money, Real Quick: The Story of M-PESA (Guardian Books, 2012).
Summary at CEME. (Amazon link)
More... →Sign up by March 28 at 11:59pm!
From Kim:
All students – we love your enthusiasm and restraint. You are signing up in droves for financial lent (no I am not Catholic and don’t observe lent but adhere to little sacrifices now and then, a virtue regardless of your faith) and we applaud you. John [...]
More... →Slate Magazine has a series on the cashless society. The meme is alive and well, although the whole concept seems to be a novelty in the public mind.
The Cashless Society – Slate Magazine.
Seth Stevenson just closed his serial first-person account of the cashless life today at ten o-clock. He points out all [...]
More... →Hi All … If you make mistakes and own up, you are still eligible for the cash prize.
Hint: Pay your rent ahead of time!
More... →22 students have signed up so far…. Deadline to join is March 28.
More... →David Wolman visited Harvard Bookstore to talk about his excellent new book, The End of Money. He packed the house, no surprise.
At the heart of David’s book is an experiment and the people it brought him to meet. He lived without cash for a year, just to see what the cashless [...]
More... →Registration for the smackdown is now closed. open! Thank you to our participants!
More... →Students in Kim Wilson’s class (and anyone else) are invited to join in a week-long payments experiment. Students will be assigned to one of two groups, each of which fasts from a type of payments for seven days. The no-ink group will give up cash, checks and money orders for a week. The no-electrons group [...]
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