Bill Maurer

Bill Maurer is a cultural anthropologist and sociolegal scholar. A professor at the University of California, Irvine, Maurer serves as the dean of the university’s School of Social Sciences and the director of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion. As an author and editor, his most recent books include “How Would You Like to Pay? How Technology is Changing the Future of Money,” and “Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks and Other Money Stuff” (with Lana Swartz). In 2019, he also edited “A Cultural History of Money” in six volumes, covering antiquity to the present.