The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory

Kariappa Bheemaiah

  • 出版商: Apress
  • 出版日期: 2017-02-28
  • 售價: $1,410
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,340
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 248
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 1484226739
  • ISBN-13: 9781484226735
  • 相關分類: 區塊鏈 Blockchain
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商品描述

This book examines what would happen if we were to deploy blockchain technology at the sovereign level and use it to create a decentralized cashless economy. This book explains how finance and economics work today, and how the convergence of various technologies related to the financial sector can help us find solutions to problems, such as excessive debt creation, banks getting too big to fail, and shadow banking. The Blockchain Alternative offers sensible corrections to outdated and incorrect dogmas, such as the efficient markets hypothesis and rational expectations theory. You’ll also be introduced to universal basic income, the consequences of going cashless, why complexity economics needs to be understood and what kinds of tools and theories you'll need to redefine the existing definition of capitalism.

While the book does discuss technologies and methods that are primed for our future, a number of references are made to economic history and the works of great thinkers from a different era. You’ll see how the blockchain can be used to deploy solutions that were devised in the past, but which can serve as the antidote to our current economic malaises. You'll discover that what is required today is not an adaptation of the old theories, but a new methodology that is suited to this new era. Without undertaking such an endeavor, one will always be burdened with a definition of capitalism that is out of kilter with the evolution of our digital humanity.

What would this mean to monetary and fiscal policy, market structure and our current understanding of economics? More importantly would we need to change our current understanding of capitalism? And if we were to change our perceptions, what would the future version look like?  This book answers these questions, and analyses some of the most pertinent issues of our generation.

 

What You’ll Learn

  • Examine fractional banking, debt, and the financialization of assets
  • Gain a firm understanding of the “too big to fail” theory, smart contracts, and Fintech
  • Review economics and agent-based modelling
  • Use the blockchain and complexity economics to rethink economics and capitalistic systems

 
Who This Book Is For

The primary audience is bankers and other finance professionals, policy makers, and students of finance and economics. The secondary audience is anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the current financial system, the blockchain, and the future of capitalism.

Praise for The Blockchain Alternative

“…a bold and pioneering effort to make sense of how emerging digital technologies might be used to reshape public policies, including macroeconomic and social policies, in basic ways.  Everyone interested in this very important emerging question should read this book."

-       Dr. Sanjay G. Reddy, Associate Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research and Research Associate of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University.

“Writing on blockchain today is analogous to writing about the internet, before it became massively distributed. The book pushes us to think about the quantum leap that this technology may infer to our capitalist model, if scaled at the pace described by the book. Written with the support of strong empirical models but also with an open mind towards the future, this is a must read for anyone interested in becoming part of the new economic infrastructure”

-       Dr. Mark Esposito, Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education & Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

“With a rigorously balanced dosage of versatility and rationale we are allured into a multifaceted trajectory across ingrained yet functionally arcane economic models, only to plunge into a conceptually revolutionary realm which irreversibly stimulates us into envisaging a fascinating novel scheme of world order”.       

-       Ioana Surpateanu, Political Adviser to the European Parliament

“If there is only one book that I am reading on how blockchain is going to change our lives, it will have to be "The Blockchain Alternative."

-       Dr. Terence Tse, Associate Professor of Finance, ESCP Europe Business School


商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書探討了如果我們在主權層面部署區塊鏈技術並用其創建去中心化的無現金經濟,將會發生什麼情況。本書解釋了金融和經濟如何運作,以及與金融領域相關的各種技術的融合如何幫助我們找到解決問題的方法,例如過度債務創造、銀行變得太大而無法失敗以及影子銀行。《區塊鏈替代方案》提供了對過時和不正確教條的明智修正,例如有效市場假說和理性預期理論。您還將介紹到普遍基本收入、無現金化的後果,以及為重新定義現有資本主義定義所需的複雜經濟學的理解和工具和理論類型。

雖然本書討論了為我們的未來準備的技術和方法,但也引用了經濟歷史和來自不同時代的偉大思想家的作品。您將看到區塊鏈如何用於部署過去設計的解決方案,這些解決方案可以作為我們當前經濟困境的解藥。您將發現,今天所需的不是對舊理論的適應,而是一種適應這個新時代的新方法論。如果不進行這樣的努力,人們將始終被與我們數字人性的演變不符的資本主義定義所困擾。

這對貨幣和財政政策、市場結構和我們對經濟的現有理解意味著什麼?更重要的是,我們需要改變我們對資本主義的現有理解嗎?如果我們改變了觀念,未來的版本會是什麼樣子?本書回答了這些問題,並分析了我們這一代最重要的一些問題。

您將學到什麼:
- 檢視存款銀行、債務和資產金融化
- 瞭解“太大而無法失敗”理論、智能合約和金融科技
- 審查經濟學和基於代理的建模
- 使用區塊鏈和複雜經濟學重新思考經濟和資本主義體系

本書的主要讀者是銀行家和其他金融專業人士、政策制定者以及金融和經濟學的學生。次要讀者是任何希望更深入了解當前金融體系、區塊鏈和資本主義未來的人。

對《區塊鏈替代方案》的讚譽:
“……這是一項大膽而開創性的努力,旨在理解新興數字技術如何以根本性的方式重塑公共政策,包括宏觀經濟和社會政策。每個對這個非常重要的新興問題感興趣的人都應該閱讀這本書。” - Sanjay G. Reddy博士,紐約社會研究新學院經濟學副教授,哥倫比亞大學政策對話倡議研究員。

“在區塊鏈的書寫中,就像在互聯網成為大規模分佈之前的書寫一樣。如果按照本書所描述的速度進行擴展,這項技術對我們的資本主義模式可能帶來量子飛躍。本書以強有力的實證模型支持,同時對未來持開放態度,這是任何有興趣成為新經濟基礎設施一部分的人必讀的書籍。” - Mark Esposito博士,哈佛大學繼續教育部和劍橋大學Judge商學院。

本書以多樣化和合理的方式引導我們穿越根深蒂固但功能上晦澀的經濟學軌跡。