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Why Nepal grows Japan’s cash

Why Nepal grows Japan’s cash

Bill Maurer, anthropology, law and IMTFI, dives into the history of cash in this piece with Business Insider (video) Japan has long harvested a shrub called mitsumata for its money supply. But when the shrub started dying out, Japan searched

JFan November 18, 2025November 18, 2025 IMTFI Read more

Killing the penny shortchanges the poor, UC Irvine professor says

Killing the penny shortchanges the poor, UC Irvine professor says

Bill Maurer and Jenny Fan, anthropology and IMTFI, The Orange County Register, Los Angeles Daily News, June 4, 2025 Bill Maurer, dean of the School of Social Sciences at UC Irvine, says removing the penny will harm those who don’t

JFan June 9, 2025June 9, 2025 IMTFI Read more

Book Talk | The Dollar: How the US Dollar Became a Popular Currency in Argentina w/ Mariana Luzzi, & Ariel Wilkis, University of San Martín

Book Talk | The Dollar: How the US Dollar Became a Popular Currency in Argentina w/ Mariana Luzzi, & Ariel Wilkis, University of San Martín

The Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion (IMTFI)@UCI, Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Social Anthropology (CIESAS Occidente) and the UCI Department of Anthropology present: Book Talk | Mariana Luzzi and Ariel Wilkis | The Dollar: How the

JFan February 13, 2025March 11, 2025 IMTFI Read more

Cash Scarcity and Nude Protests in Nigeria

cover of Protest journal

IMTFI Fellow Oludayo Tade, Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, shares his research published in Protest In the first week of February 2023, videos of two people who stripped naked in some banking halls located in Southern Nigeria went viral.

JFan May 6, 2024May 6, 2024 IMTFI Read more

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