The political economy and feasibility of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies : insights from the history of economic thought /
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| Imprint: | Northampton, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2022] |
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| Description: | 1 online resource ( 272 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12773904 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I: Essential foundations: Before the French revolution
- 1. Introduction to the political economy and feasibility of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
- 2. Aristotle's (384-322 bce) seminal contributions to the economics tradition
- 3. Adam smith (1723-1790) on money
- 4. John law (1671-1729): The financial engineer as social engineer
- Part II: Some essential debates and developments in the modern era
- 5. Marx's (1818-1883) monetary theory: Mainstream conservative theory; yet radical, revolutionary challenge
- 6. Keynes (1883-1946): Monetary theorist as capitalism's saviour
- the key issues
- Part III: Blowback
- 7. The surprising rise of libertarianism and the libertarian response: Starring murray rothbard (1926-1995)
- what has government done to our money?
- 8. On the road again: Friedrich a. Hayek's (1899-1992) denationalisation of money
- Part IV: Current issues on the political economy of bitcoins and cryptocurrencies
- 9. Issues raised by bitcoins and cryptocurrencies for monetary theory
- 10. Issues raised by monetary theory concerning bitcoins and cryptocurrencie
- References
- Index.
