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Book Synopsis
This book provides a coherent Blockchain framework for the business community, governments, and universities structured around microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance, and political economy and identifies how business organizations, financial markets and governmental policies are changed by digitalization, specifically Blockchain. This framework, what they authors call “disintermediation economics,” affects everything by providing a paradigm that transforms the way we organize markets and value chains, financial services, central banking, budgetary policies, innovation ecosystems, government services, and civil society. Bringing together leading and experienced policy makers, corporate practitioners, and academics from top universities, this book offers a road map of best practices that can be immediately useful to firms, policy makers as well as academics by balancing theory with practice.
Table of ContentsCh. 1: What is Disintermediation Economics: An introduction (Psarrakis).- Part A: Disintermediation in Microeconomics.- Ch. 2: Distributed Ledger Economics: Organizations, Incentives and Strategy (Psarrakis).- Ch. 3: Economics of Smart Contracts: Efficiency and legal challenges (Dobrauz-Saldapenna and Schrackmann).- Ch. 4: Corporate Strategies for Blockchain-based Solutions (Verheggen).- Ch. 5: Distributed Data Economics (Shrier).-Part B: Disintermediation in Macroeconomics and Finance.- Ch. 6: Blockchain for Growth: Applying distributed ledger technologies to the UN Sustainable goals (Thomason).- Ch. 7: The New Money: The utility of Cryptocurrencies and the need for a New Monetary Policy (Lee and Teo).- Ch. 8: Privately Issued Digital Currencies (Disparte).- Ch. 9: Crypto-assets, Distributed Ledger Technologies and Disintermediation in Finance: Overcoming impediments to scaling: A view from the EU (Noble).- Ch. 10: Crypto-assets and Disintermediation in Finance: A view from Asia (Johnstone).- Part C: Disintermediation in Political Economy and Regulation.- Ch. 11: The Political Economy of the Blockchain (Zilgalvis).- Ch. 12: Regulating Blockchain in the EU: Building a global competitive advantage (Kaili).- Ch. 13: Advancing Digital Transformation in the Public Sector with Blockchain: A view from the European Union (Baldacci and Frade).- Ch. 14: Disposable Identities? Why digital identity matters to blockchain disintermediation and for society (Anania, Le Gars, and van Kranenburg).
