A one-day workshop exploring the social aspects of informal value
transfer at the European Complex Systems Society Conference, Lisbon,
September 16th, 2010.
***Deadline for submissions: April 30th 2010 ***
This workshop aims to promote inquiry into social phenomena that involve
value-exchange, and in particular on networks for credit and value
transfer, under the effect of recent technological and societal change.
Informal value transfer and credit networks involve people or
institutions providing credit or value transfer services based on social
trust rather than laws and contracts. Such networks constitute a complex
system that have been relatively unstudied yet have a significant impact
on people's lives. Examples range from local baby-sitting circles up to
the Hawala/Hundi systems of informal value transfer shifting 100s of
millions of dollars accross the globe without centralised records. Such
systems of exchange often involve many social processes and mechanisms
other than those usually considered, including: social norms, altruism,
reputation, trust, group membership, friendship, kinship, identity,
status etc. This workshop is on studies and simulation to further their
understanding.
Guest speaker: Roger Ballard the Director (Centre for Applied South
Asian Studies) will talk on the Informal Hawala/Hundi Systems of Value
Transfer
More details at: http://cfpm.org/scive.
Bruce Edmonds (UK), David Hales (Netherlands), Mario Paolucci (Italy),
and Juliet Rouchier (France)
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