Jo Lindsay Walton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1507113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jo Lindsay Walton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jo Lindsay |
| FAMILY NAME | Walton |
| SIGNATURE | WALTON J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Bitcoin and stone money: Anglophone use of Yapese economic cultures, 1910-2020
Recently parallels have been drawn between Bitcoin and Yapese stone money. This article focuses on Fitzpatrick and McKeon's (2019) exploration of similarities and differences. The analogy between Bitcoin and Yapese stone money is based on proposed commonalities that are inaccurate, ill-defined, and/or trivial. However, this does not signal a need to refine the comparison, but rather a need to reconsider the rationale for attempting it in the firs…
Computing Utopia: The Horizons of Computational Economies in History and Science Fiction
This article connects the recent flourishing of economic science fiction with the increasing technicity of contemporary financial markets, to pose questions about computational economies, both historical and fictional, and their ambiguous utopian currents. It explores examples of computational economies and societies in which economic resources are largely defined and allocated by computational systems to challenge—if not entirely dispel—assumpti…
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Computing Utopia: The Horizons of Computational Economies in History and Science Fiction
This article connects the recent flourishing of economic science fiction with the increasing technicity of contemporary financial markets, to pose questions about computational economies, both historical and fictional, and their ambiguous utopian currents. It explores examples of computational economies and societies in which economic resources are largely defined and allocated by computational systems to challenge—if not entirely dispel—assumpti…
Bitcoin and stone money: Anglophone use of Yapese economic cultures, 1910-2020
Recently parallels have been drawn between Bitcoin and Yapese stone money. This article focuses on Fitzpatrick and McKeon's (2019) exploration of similarities and differences. The analogy between Bitcoin and Yapese stone money is based on proposed commonalities that are inaccurate, ill-defined, and/or trivial. However, this does not signal a need to refine the comparison, but rather a need to reconsider the rationale for attempting it in the firs…
Economics (2 works) · Art (1 works) · Authoritarianism (1 works) · Capitalism (1 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 works) · Democracy (1 works) · Dystopia (1 works) · Economic theories and models (1 works) · Economic Theory and Policy (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works)