Socratic Seminar on Cryptocurrencies and the Future of Money
ABSTRACT
The conference examined the phenomenon of cryptocurrency: how it relates to traditional forms of money and banking arrangements, what can be envisaged about its future, and what its implications are for the ideal of a free society.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Florida v. Espinoza, F14-2923, Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Miami-Dade County, Florida. (Decision July 22, 2016)
Barrdear, John and Michael Kumhof. “The macroeconomics of central bank issued digital currencies (Staff Working Paper No. 605).” Bank of England, London, July 2016. http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/Documents/workingpapers/2016/swp605.pdf (accessed July 10, 2017) .
Browne, F. X. and David Cronin, “Payment Technologies, Financial Innovation, and Laissez-Faire Banking: A Further Discussion of the Issues” In The Future of Money in the Information Age, edited by James A. Dorn, 153-165. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 1997.
Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures [CPMI]. “Digital Currencies.” Bank for International Settlements, Basel, 2015.
Fisher, Rosalind L., “New Payments Technology” In The Future of Money in the Information Age, edited by James A. Dorn, 59-63. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 1997.
Frezza, Bill, “The Internet and the End of Monetary Sovereignty” In The Future of Money in the Information Age, edited by James A. Dorn, 29-33. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 1997.
Nair, Malavika and Nicolas Cachanosky. “Bitcoin and entrepreneurship: breaking the network effect.” The Review of Austrian Economics (July 2016): 1-13. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11138-016-0348-x (accessed ).
Raskin, Max and David Yermack. “Digital Currencies, Decentralized Ledgers, and the Future of Central Banking.” The National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 2016.
Selgin, George. “Synthetic Commodity Money.” Paper presented at George Mason University PPE Workshop, Fairfax, Virginia, April 5, 2013.
Tapscott, Don and Alex Tapscott. Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World. New York: Penguin Random House, 2016.
Vigna, Paul and Michael J. Casey. The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2015.
Wan, Tiffany and Max Hoblitzell. “Bitcoin: Fact. Fiction. Future.” Deloitte University Press. http://dupress.deloitte.com/dup-us-en/topics/emerging-technologies/bitcoin-fact-fiction-future.html (September 20, 2016).
White, Lawrence H., “The Technology Revolution and Monetary Evolution” In The Future of Money in the Information Age, edited by James A. Dorn, 15-20. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 1997.