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The value of transactions in the new data economy - Lana Swartz, New Money: How Payment Became Social Media, New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 2020, 272 pp., $28 (pub), ISBN 978-0-30023-322-3

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Lana Swartz, New Money: How Payment Became Social Media, New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 2020, 272 pp., $28 (pub), ISBN 978-0-30023-322-3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Carola Westermeier
Carola Westermeier*
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University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Corresponding author: Carola Westermeier, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 15578, 1001 NB Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Email: c.westermeier@uva.nl.
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Finance and Society , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , 2020 , pp. 157 - 162
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