Rachel O'Dwyer

ResearcherModern· Irish

Author of 'Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform' (Verso, 2023; longlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year; a best book of 2023 for Wired, GQ and the LA Times) — a study of how platforms issue private money-like tokens (gift vouchers, phone credit, game tokens, NFTs) that discipline and surveil their users, and of the grassroots token economies that resist them. She continues the work on her Substack 'Living Currency' and in Irish Times commentary.