"Each time there were academics that developed equations and user models about the mental transaction costs, usability issues, massive transaction volume requirements, reader commitment development, engagement development, pre-pay vs. post-pay issues, banked vs. unbanked considerations, and more."

You can narrow the search by adding the terms clay shirky, scott mcloud, jakob nielsen, bitpass, peppercoin, click-n-buy, ala carte, qpass, etc.

To many, the space has been beaten to death, to many others, history has no lessons. At a minimum, discussing this topic gives me something to write about.

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"it is a little offensive to see the same old arguments and jokes about micropayment pros and cons popping up without any reference to the previous analysis and commentary"

is there space for a reference?