Todo lo que querías saber sobre Bitcoin, criptomonedas y Blockchain y no te atrevías a preguntar

¿Ha llegado el dinero digital para quedarse definitivamente? ¿Es la blockchain la próxima revolución tecnológica? ¿Cómo va a afectar en nuestras vidas la llamada criptoeconomía? Casi no queda nadie que no haya oído hablar del bitcoin, las criptomonedas y la blockchain. Sin embargo, continúa siendo ...

Money

what it is, how it's created, who gets it, and why it matters

By enabling the storage and transfer of purchasing power, money facilitates economic transactions and coordinates economic activity. But what is money? How is it generated? Distributed? How does money acquire value and that value change? How does money impact the economy, society? This book explores ...

Currency power

understanding monetary rivalry

Monetary rivalry is a fact of life in the world economy. Intense competition between international currencies like the US dollar, Europe's euro, and the Chinese yuan is profoundly political, going to the heart of the global balance of power. But what exactly is the ...

Descubriendo el Bitcoin

cómo funciona. cómo comprar, invertir, desinvertir...

La nueva revolución tecnológica que transformará el mundo se llama «blockchain». Se trata de una base de datos distribuida entre sus usuarios, de acceso público y con información totalmente segura que provocará grandes cambios en ámbitos como la economía, la medicina o la empresa, entre ...

Bitcoin

guía completa de la moneda del futuro

Las cosas cambian. Todo está sujeto a esta ley. Da igual donde miremos, todo es cambio y nada permanece inalterado para siempre. ¿Todo? Bueno, al menos casi todo, porque el funcionamiento del dinero y cómo la Sociedad se articula en torno a él no ha ...

The truth machine

the blockchain and the future of everything

The co-authors of The Age of Cryptocurrency demystify the blockchain, a new kind of operating system with the potential to revolutionize the vast swaths of our economy, explaining the ways in which it can restore personal control over our data, assets and identities and shift ...

¿Qué es realmente Bitcoin?

Bitcoin es una moneda electro?nica descentralizada, concebida en 2009 por quien se ha dado a conocer como Satoshi Nakamoto (aunque su verdadera identidad se desconoce). El nombre Bitcoin se aplica tambie?n al software libre disen?ado por Nakamoto para la gestio?n de ...

Resetting the international monetary (non) system

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. International financial crises have ...

The great ideas about chance

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from a mystery into the discipline of probability, setting the stage for a series of breakthroughs that enabled or transformed innumerable fields, from gambling, mathematics, statistics, economics, and finance to physics ...

What's wrong With the IMF

and how to fix it

The International Money Fund (IMF) stands at a crossroad. Derided as increasingly irrelevant in the first decade of the new millennium, the fall-out from the 2008 global financial crisis has restored its power and prestige. The resurgent IMF has shifted in policy position with potentially ...

Dollars and sense

how we misthink money and how to spend smarter

Why is paying for things painful? Why are we comfortable overpaying for something in the present just because we’ve overpaid for it in the past? Why is it easy to pay $4 for a soda on vacation, when we wouldn’t spend more than ...

International currency exposure

The foreign currency denomination of contracts in international transactions can lead to international currency exposure at the country level with important economic and policy implications. When debts are denominated in foreign currency and revenues in domestic currency, exchange rate fluctuations can result in balance sheet ...

The curse of cash

how large-denomination bills aid crime and tax evasion and constrain monetary policy

From the New York Times bestselling author of This Time Is Different, "a fascinating and important book" (Ben Bernanke) about phasing out most paper money to fight crime and tax evasion—and to battle financial crises by tapping the power of negative interest rates The ...

The currency of confidence

how economic beliefs shape the IMF's relationship with Its borrowers

The IMF is a purposive actor in world politics, primarily driven by a set of homogenous economic ideas, Stephen C. Nelson suggests, and its professional staff emerged from an insular set of American-trained economists. The IMF treats countries differently depending on whether that staff trusts ...

The social meaning of money

pin money, paychecks, poor relief, and Ooher currencies

A dollar is a dollar—or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing relations to cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money ...

Naked money

a revealing look at what it is and why It matters

Money talks

explaining how money really works

The world of money is being transformed as households and organizations face changing economies, and new currencies and payment systems like Bitcoin and Apple Pay gain ground. What is money, and how do we make sense of it? Money Talks is the first book to ...

A market theory of money

In this book, Sir John Hicks draws together the common threads of over 50 years' writing on monetary economics into a succint statement of the fundamentals of monetary theory. He also goes beyond this work of synthesis to outline a theory of competitive markets which ...

Money free and unfree

The United States has endured crippling financial crises, together with many other sorts of monetary disorder, throughout its history. Why? The popular answer has long been that U.S. banks have been under-regulated, that increased regulation and centralization over the years have helped, and that ...

La moneda del siglo veinte y la política monetaria no convencional

La crisis bancaria y financiera producida en los países industriales más avanzados a comienzos del nuevo siglo plantea nuevos retos a la investigación. El editor de esta publicación ha querido poner a disposición de los lectores en lengua española una muestra de lo que habían ...