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Bill Maurer is the dean of the School of Social Sciences for the University of California, Irvine, the founding director of the Institute for Money Technology and Financial Inclusion, and a scholar of legal and economic anthropology. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College and his Ph.D. from Stanford University.

His research has focused on a niche subfield, the anthropology of finance. In this area, Maurer became a famous anthropologist by studying finance and economics through the lens of human anthropology, with explorations of off-shore institutions in the Caribbean, Islamic finance, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain.

Maurer’s work has received four major National Science Foundation research grants, funding studies into international finance and digital currencies. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is the associate editor of the Journal of Cultural Economy.

He has written four books and numerous scholarly articles, including Recharting the Caribbean: Land, Law, and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands and How Would You Like to Pay? How Technology is Changing the Future of Money. One of his books, Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason, was honored in 2005 with the prestigious Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing.

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According to Wikipedia, William M. Maurer is an American academic scholar of legal and economic anthropology. He currently serves as the dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He has conducted research on money, finance, economy, and law, including the off-shore financial services industry in the Caribbean, alternative currencies, Islamic finance, mobile money, and traditional and emerging payment technologies, as well as cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and related blockchain technologies. He has been called the “doyen” of the subfield of the anthropology of finance. Maurer is also the founding director of the Institute for Money Technology and Financial Inclusion, a research institute at UC Irvine funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and a fellow of the Filene Research Institute. He was previously the founding co-director of the Intel Science and Technology Center in Social Computing, also at UCI.

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The Anthropology of Money (2006) (402)
Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason (2005) (315)
“When perhaps the real problem is money itself!”: the practical materiality of Bitcoin (2013) (290)
Mobile Money: Communication, Consumption and Change in the Payments Space (2012) (219)
Repressed futures: financial derivatives' theological unconscious (2002) (149)
Anthropological and accounting knowledge in Islamic banking and finance: Rethinking critical accounts (2002) (140)
Valuation Studies? Our Collective Two Cents (2013) (127)
Sanctioned identities: Legal constructions of modern personhood (1995) (117)
An Emerging Platform: From Money Transfer System to Mobile Money Ecosystem (2011) (101)
Recharting the Caribbean: Land, Law, and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands (1999) (94)
Retail Electronic Payments Systems for Value Transfers in the Developing World (2008) (84)
Social Payments: Innovation, Trust, Bitcoin, and the Sharing Economy (2018) (82)
Forget Locke?: From Proprietor to Risk-Bearer in New Logics of Finance (1999) (73)
In the Mirror: The Legitimation Work of Globalization (2002) (72)
‘Bridges to cash’ : Channelling agency in mobile money (2013) (71)
Globalization under Construction: Governmentality, Law, and Identity (2003) (70)
Due Diligence and "Reasonable Man," Offshore (2005) (64)
A fish story: Rethinking globalization on Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands - eScholarship (2000) (60)
Re‐Regulating Offshore Finance? (2008) (60)
Form versus substance: AAOIFI projects and Islamic fundamentals in the case of sukuk (2010) (57)
Introduction: Number as Inventive Frontier (2010) (56)
From meiwaku to tokushita!: lessons for digital money design from japan (2008) (50)
Does Money Matter?: Abstraction and Substitution in Alternative Financial Forms (2005) (46)
Payment: Forms and Functions of Value Transfer in Contemporary Society (2012) (40)
Engineering an Islamic future (2001) (40)
Money and Violence: Financial Self-Help Groups in a South African Township. (2009) (38)
Uncanny Exchanges: The Possibilities and Failures of ‘Making Change’ with Alternative Monetary Forms (2003) (34)
Introduction to “Ethnographic Emergences” (2005) (34)
Structural Inequalities in the Global Legal System@@@Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money@@@Recharting the Caribbean: Land, Law, and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands@@@Globalisation, Human Rights, and Labour Law in Pacific Asia (1998) (33)
RESOCIALIZING FINANCE? OR DRESSING IT IN MUFTI? (2008) (32)
Islands in the Net: Rewiring Technological and Financial Circuits in the “Offshore” Caribbean (2001) (30)
Writing law, making a 'nation': history, modernity, and paradoxes of self-rule in the British Virgin Islands (1995) (29)
Orderly families for the new economic order: Belonging and citizenship in the British Virgin Islands (1995) (27)
The Disunity Of Finance: Alternative Practices To Western Finance (2012) (27)
Cyberspatial Sovereignties: Offshore Finance, Digital Cash, and the Limits of Liberalism (1998) (26)
Accelerating possession : global futures of property and personhood (2006) (26)
How Would You Like to Pay?: How Technology Is Changing the Future of Money (2015) (25)
Comment: Got Language? Law, Property, and the Anthropological Imagination (2003) (24)
Incalculable Payments: Money, Scale, and the South African Offshore Grey Money Amnesty (2007) (24)
Re-risking in Realtime. On Possible Futures for Finance after the Blockchain (2016) (23)
Accidents of equity and the aesthetics of Chinese offshore incorporation (2012) (19)
Money from Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa (2017) (18)
Materiality, Symbol, and Complexity in the Anthropology of Money (2014) (18)
Globalization Under Construction (2003) (16)
Data-mining for development? Poverty, payment, and platform (2015) (16)
Finance 2.0 (2012) (15)
Ungrounding knowledges offshore Caribbean Studies, disciplinarity and critique (2004) (15)
Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia: An Anthropology of Public Reasoning (2004) (14)
Gender matters : rereading Michelle Z. Rosaldo (2000) (14)
Pious Property: Islamic Mortgages in the United States (2006) (14)
Creolization Redux: The Plural Society Thesis and Offshore Financial Services in the British Caribbean (1997) (14)
AFTERWORD: Mobile money, money magic, purse limits and pins: tracing monetary pragmatics (2011) (13)
Cyberspatial Properties: Taxing Questions about Proprietary Regime (2020) (13)
Mutual Life, Limited (2011) (12)
Anthropology with Business: Plural Programs and Future Financial Worlds (2012) (11)
Speculations on Islamic Financial Alternatives (2001) (11)
Monetary Ecologies and Repertoires: Research from the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion. First Annual Report Design Principles - eScholarship (2010) (11)
Postscript: is there money in credit? (2014) (11)
Understanding Disputes: The Politics of Argument (1998) (11)
Fact and fetish in creolization studies: Herskovits and the problem of induction, or, Guinea Coast, 1593 (2002) (10)
Re-formatting the economy: Islamic banking and finance in world politics (2005) (10)
The Cultural Power of Law? Conjunctive Readings (2004) (10)
CARIBBEAN DANCE: "RESISTANCE," COLONIAL DISCOURSE, AND SUBJUGATED KNOWLEDGES (1991) (9)
IN THE MATTER OF MARXISM (2006) (9)
Blockchains Are a Diamond’s Best Friend (2018) (9)
Credit between Cultures: Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa (2012) (8)
Finger counting money (2010) (8)
Blockchains Are a Diamond's Best Friend: ZelizeR for the bitcoin moment (2017) (7)
Mobile Money: Afghanistan (2011) (7)
Transacting ontologies (2013) (7)
The pragmatics of payment: adventures in first-person economy with Bill Maurer (2016) (6)
Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (2017) (6)
David Graeber's Wunderkammer, Debt: The First 5 000 Years (2013) (6)
Symbolic Sexuality and Economic Work in Dominica, West Indies: The Naturalization of Sex and Women's Work in Development (1991) (5)
From the revenue rule to soft law and back again: The consequences for 'society' of the social governance of international tax competition (2009) (5)
RESOCIALIZING FINANCE? OR DRESSING IT IN MUFTI? Calculating alternatives for cultural economies (2015) (5)
Law Writing, Immigration, and Globalization in the British Virgin Islands (1995) (5)
Finance as ‘bizarre bazaar’: Using documents as a source of ethnographic knowledge (2018) (5)
Globalization: studies in anthropology. (2004) (5)
"Belonging," Citizenship and Flexible Specialization in a Caribbean Tax Haven (British Virgin Islands) (1993) (4)
Retooling anthropology: A response to Hart/Ortiz and Gudeman (AT24[6]) (2009) (4)
Chrysography: Substance and effect (2002) (4)
Credit Crisis Religion (2010) (4)
Implementing Empirical Knowledge in Anthropology and Islamic Accountancy (2008) (4)
Credit slips (but should not fall) (2012) (4)
Articulating Islamic Knowledge to an American Dream: Islamic Home Financing Alternatives after September 11, 2001 (2003) (3)
Please Destabilize Ethnography Now: Against Anthropological Showbiz-as-Usual (2003) (2)
Children of Mixed Marriages on Virgin Soil: Citizenship, Descent and Place in the British Virgin Islands (1996) (2)
Modern Reflex:Facing Modernity: Ambivalence, Reflexivity and Morality.;Questions of Modernity. (2002) (2)
“Any Time is Trinidad Time”: Social Meanings and Temporal Consciousness. (2000) (2)
Striking Out Gender: Getting to First Base with Bill Brown (1992) (2)
Lex Llewellyn and the Tribal Tax Status Act: 'Fallible Gropings' in Law and Society (2012) (1)
Occupy economic anthropology (2012) (1)
Faith in the form: Islamic home financing and "American" Islamic law (2008) (1)
Value Transfer and Rent:: Or, I Didn’t Realize My Payment Was Your Annuity (2017) (1)
Redecorating the International Economy: Keynes, Grant and the Queering of Bretton Woods (2018) (1)
Margaret R. Somers Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness and the Right to Have Rights. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008 (2011) (1)
Fiscal Policy in Crisis (2008) (1)
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology: Fact and Value in Islamic Banking and Anthropology (2003) (1)
Money Orders—and It’s Done! Activating Theories of Money’s Origins and Orders (2019) (1)
What’s in Your Wallet? (2015) (1)
Bridges to cash (2018) (1)
Book Review: Fidell Castro's Political and Social Thought (1995) (1)
From Caliban to CARICOM: Encountering Legality in the Caribbean (1995) (1)
Confession and Bookkeeping: The Religious, Moral, and Rhetorical Roots of Modern Accounting by James Aho:Confession and Bookkeeping: The Religious, Moral, and Rhetorical Roots of Modern Accounting (2007) (0)
Statemaking at the Fringes of Development (1998) (0)
Afterword.: Monetary Ingenuity: Drink It In (2018) (0)
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology: Law's Places in Native North America (2001) (0)
Finance for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the Caribbean (review) (2008) (0)
In Focus: Ethnographic Emergences Introduction to “Ethnographic Emergences” (2005) (0)
Title Form versus substance : AAOIFI projects and Islamic fundamentals in the case of sukuk Permalink (2010) (0)
MAURER-CARIBBEAN DANCE: "RESISTANCE," COLONIAL DISCOURSE, AND SUBJUGATED KNOWLEDGES STUDYING CARIBBEAN DANCE (2015) (0)
Title Uncanny exchanges : The possibilities and failures of ' making change ' with alternative monetary forms Permalink (2003) (0)
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology: Inside the Security State (2002) (0)
tion of a wider spectrum of island histories and events. (2015) (0)
Disruptions in Money (2015) (0)
The Racial Capitalism of Blockchain (2019) (0)
The Evolution of Money (2015) (0)
CHAPTER 6. Mutual Life, Limited: Insurance, Moral Value, and Bureaucratic Form (2011) (0)
Economy (2020) (0)
Mapping the Rights Apparatus (2004) (0)
Afterword : Prophecies on property’s probability: climate change and smart contracts in the Anthropocene (2017) (0)
Edward LiPuma and Benjamin Lee. Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2004 (224 pp. + xi) (2006) (0)
Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance by Arjun Appadurai. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 176 pp. (2016) (0)
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology: APLA at the Annual Meeting (2001) (0)
CHAPTER 5. Wiseman’s and Fool’s Gold (2011) (0)
Schmidt, Mario, and Sandy Ross (eds.): Money Counts. Revisiting Economic Calculation. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. 141 pp. ISBN 978-1-78920-685-2. (Studies in Social Analysis, 10) Price: € 30,99 (2021) (0)
Mortgaging the Ancestors: Ideologies of Attachment in Africa by Parker Shipton (2010) (0)
The gift of money: Dematerialization, demonetization, and money’s pedigree (2018) (0)
Redeem your money here (2015) (0)
The method of the real: What do we intend with ethnographic infrastructure? (2018) (0)
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology: The Anthropology of Politics and the Politics of Anthropology (2001) (0)
ANTHROPOLOGY AWARD WINNERS (2000) (0)
Note on Transliteration (2011) (0)
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology: “As Seen on TV”: Media, Globalization, and Scoial Fragmentation in Trinidad (2001) (0)
Tokens, Writing and (Ac)counting: A Conversation with Denise Schmandt-Besserat and Bill Maurer (2017) (0)
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology: Law & Society Association Meeting (2000) (0)
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology: Discipline and Punish? Cambodian Refugees Learning Parenting from the Police (2001) (0)
The legitimation work globalization (2006) (0)
What Can You Do with a Mobile Phone (2015) (0)
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology: AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (2001) (0)
Book Review: Murray, David A.B. Opacity: gender, sexuality,race and the ‘problem’ of identity in Martinique.x, 188 pp., bibliogr. Oxford, NewYork: Peter Lang, 2002. $29.95 (paper) (2003) (0)
Two Scenarios: A Day in the Money Life (2015) (0)
What Is Money (2015) (0)
Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean, by Peter James Hudson (2018) (0)
Foreword: Rusing risk (2008) (0)
Internet Gambling Offshore: Caribbean Struggles over Casino Capitalism. Andrew F. Cooper. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xvii + 201 pp. (Cloth US$ 85.00) (2013) (0)
Payments are Getting Political Again (2019) (0)
List of Illustrations and Tables (2011) (0)
CHAPTER 1. In the Matter of Islamic Banking and Local Currencies (2011) (0)
Reseña de "Finance for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the Caribbean" de Erwin E. Brewster (2008) (0)
CONCLUSION. Restaging Abstraction and Adequation (2011) (0)
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology: Law at the Margins: Legal Anthropology (2001) (0)
Use Cases for Money (2015) (0)
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology: PoLAR Transitions (2002) (0)
Chrysography (2002) (0)
Money: Anthropological Aspects (2015) (0)
Data forward: an afterword (2021) (0)
'Any Time is Trinidad Time' (Book Review). (2000) (0)
CHAPTER 4. Innumerate Equivalencies: Making Change with Alternative Currencies (2011) (0)
Subjects of Law, Objects of Politics (1999) (0)
CHAPTER 2. Of Law and Belief (2011) (0)
Blockchain (0)
Tourism's intimate economies (2008) (0)
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology: Debating Farmed Salmon Production (2002) (0)
AFTERWORD (2011) (0)
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology: Karam Wins Paper Prize (2003) (0)
Book review: Dreaming of Money in Ho Chi Minh City (2016) (0)
Visions of Fact; Languages of Evidence: History, Memory, and the Trauma of Legal Research (2001) (0)
On Genealogies of Citizenship by Margaret Somers (2011) (0)
Money, Ritual, and Religion (2019) (0)
Out of balance? ‘Konesans’ and first world knowledges in Caribbean women’s studies (1998) (0)
Book Reviews (2009) (0)
Introduction. Who This Book Is For (2015) (0)
Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Cultures (2010) (0)
INTRODUCTION. Lateral Reasons for a Post-reflexive Anthropology (2011) (0)
Legitimate Acts by Mindie Lazarus‐Black; Global Culture (1995) (0)
CHAPTER 3. Of Monetary Alternatives and the Limits of Values Past (2011) (0)
Primitive and Nonmetallic Money (2020) (0)
LLEWELLYN SALON-PREREGISTRATION REQUIRED (2012) (0)
Riding the Rails of Mobile Payments (2016) (0)
Commons and Borderlands: Working Papers on Interdisciplinarity, Accountablility, and the Flow of Knowledge;Law, Anthropology, and the Constitution of the Social: Making Persons and Things (2006) (0)

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