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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254562203321

Autore

Bheemaiah Kariappa

Titolo

The Blockchain Alternative [[electronic resource] ] : Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory / / by Kariappa Bheemaiah

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : Apress : , : Imprint : Apress, , 2017

ISBN

1-4842-2674-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XX, 248 p. 29 illus., 24 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

005.74

Soggetti

Database management

Business enterprises—Finance

Information technology

Business—Data processing

Banks and banking

Finance—History

Capital market

Database Management

Business Finance

IT in Business

Banking

Financial History

Capital Markets

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Debt-Based Economy: The Intricate Dance of Debt and Money -- Chapter 2: Fragmentation of Finance -- Chapter 3: Innovating Capitalism -- Chapter 4: Complexity Economics: A New Way to Witness Capitalism -- Appendix A: Bibliography and References.

Sommario/riassunto

This book shows how distributed ledger technologies, especially the blockchain, are transforming the finance sector in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008. It surveys the measures, tools, and theories being developed to create a new framework of monetary economics and capitalism. Kariappa Bheemaiah, a technology strategy consultant, analyzes and compares the traditional and emergent paradigms of



finance and monetary economics. Blockchain: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory reviews the workings and failings of the current dominant system of fractional-reserve banking and examines the emerging technologies that are convergently challenging the status quo by defragmenting the financial sector. Readers learn how the new tools and models of econophysics and complexity economics can be applied to cashless systems to control excessive debt, systemic risk, and economic pollution.