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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787257303321

Autore

Dowd Kevin

Titolo

New private monies : a bit-part player? / / Kevin Dowd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] : , : The Institute of Economic Affairs, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-255-36699-X

0-255-36661-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (115 p.)

Collana

Hobart Papers

Disciplina

330.4

Soggetti

Money - Economic aspects

Monetary policy - Mathematical models

Electronic funds transfers - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword; The author; Acknowledgements; Summary; figures; Introduction; The liberty dollar; Trading Liberty Dollars for greenbacks; Liberty Dollar notes; The Liberty Dollar in exchange and as a store of value; The Liberty Dollar and the law in the land of liberty; Digital currency; Digital gold currency; Cryptocurrency: bitcoin; The supply of Bitcoin; Figure 1Stock of Bitcoin; The demand for Bitcoin; History of the Bitcoin market; Figure 2Bitcoin market prices and quantities traded; Current state of the Bitcoin market; Threats to Bitcoin; The future of Bitcoin

In the long run, is Bitcoin dead?Broader implications of cryptocurrency; Free trade: the Silk Road; Financial freedom; Conclusions; Contemporary private money and the functions of money; Regulation of contemporary private monies; Cryptocurrencies and the transformation of society?; References

Sommario/riassunto

Kevin Dowd argues that states must allow a level playing field as far as private money is concerned. For too long the government has stifled competition between state-backed and private currencies. Instead, central banks should welcome competition as it forces them to offer consumers greater choice and improved quality. A weakened ability to store value, growing restrictions on finance, oppressive taxes and a



lack of financial privacy have resulted in growing frustration at state controlled money. The superior nature of private currencies combined with the financial freedom they offer has led

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819381003321

Titolo

Beyond germs : native depopulation in North America / / edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, Arizona : , : University of Arizona Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8165-3220-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Amerind Studies in Archaeology

Disciplina

970.004/97

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Mortality

Indians of North America - Population

Indians, Treatment of - North America

Indians of North America - History

Indians of North America - Social conditions

North America Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Paul Kelton, Alan C. Swedlund, and Catherine M. Cameron -- Death, uncertainty, and rhetoric / David S. Jones -- Population decline and culture change in the American midcontinent : bridging the prehistoric and historic divide / George R. Milner -- Colonialism and decline in the American southeast : the remarkable record of la Florida / Clark Spencer Larsen -- Beyond epidemics : a bioarchaeological perspective on Pueblo-Spanish encounters in the American southwest / Debra l. Martin -- Identity erasure and demographic impacts of the Spanish caste system upon the indigenous populations of New Mexico / Gerardo Gutierrez -- Contagion, conflict, and captivity in interior New England : Native American and European contacts in the middle Connecticut River valley of Massachusetts,



1640-2004  / Alan C. Swedlund -- The effects of warfare and captive-taking on indigenous mortality in post-contact North America / Catherine M. Cameron -- Remembering Cherokee mortality during the American Revolution / Paul Kelton -- Quality of life : native communities within and beyond the bounds of institution in California / Kathleen l. Hull -- Not microbes alone : colonialism, health, and indigenous demographics / James F. brooks.

Sommario/riassunto

"Beyond Germs challenges the hypothesis that the massive depopulation of the New World was primarily caused by diseases brought by Europeans, which scholars used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous peoples of North America. Contributors argue that blaming germs downplays the active role of Europeans in inciting wars, destroying livelihoods, and erasing identities"--Provided by publisher.