From Inside Higher Ed:
“Ecosystem” seems an interesting choice of words, in this context. [Bill] Maurer, an anthropologist who is also dean of the school of social sciences at the University of California, Irvine, also uses it -- but in a much thicker sense than as a synonym, more or less, for “market.” The smartphone wallet represents only one means of mobile payment, limited mainly to the world’s more prosperous sectors.

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