Building a Cashless Society

Niklas Arvidsson is an associate professor at the department of industrial economics and management at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. His areas of research include innovation and learning within organizations, with a special interest in innovations in the area of payments.

• Money - The Greatest Innovation in the History of Humanity.- History of Money - In the Eye of the Beholder.- Cash Payments - An International Comparison.- The Story of Cash and the Route Toward a Cashless Society: The Case of Sweden.- Cash in the Swedish Payment System Today.- Understanding the Process Towards a Cashless Society.- Stories From a Close to Cash-Free Society.- The Future of Cash in Sweden.- What Can Be Learnt from this Development?.- Summary and Conclusions.