Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies

a comprehensive introduction

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies provides a comprehensive introduction to the revolutionary yet often misunderstood new technologies of digital currency. Whether you are a student, software developer, tech entrepreneur, or researcher in computer science, this authoritative and self-contained book tells you everything you need to know ...

From convergence to crisis

labor markets and the instability of the Euro

What explains Eurozone member-states' divergent exposure to Europe's sovereign debt crisis? Deviating from current fiscal and financial views, From Convergence to Crisis focuses on labor markets in a narrative that distinguishes the winners from the losers in the euro crisis. Alison Johnston argues that ...

The evolution of money

The sharing economy's unique customer-to-company exchange is possible because of the way in which money has evolved. These transactions have not always been as fluid as they are today, and they are likely to become even more fluid. It is therefore critical that we ...

Modeling monetary economies

Too often monetary economics has been taught as a collection of facts about institutions for students to memorize. By teaching from first principles instead, this advanced undergraduate textbook builds on a simple, clear monetary model and applies this framework consistently to a wide variety of ...

Blockchain revolution

how the tecnology behind bitcoin is changing moeny, business, and the world

The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the future of the world economy has arrived, and it’s not self-driving cars, solar energy, or artificial intelligence. It’s called the blockchain. The first generation of the digital revolution brought us the Internet of ...

In defence of Europe

can the european project be saved?

Europe has not been so weak and divided for a long time. Buffeted by a succession of crises, it has shown a strong collective survival instinct but a poor capacity to deliver. In times when the tectonic plates are shifting and tension between global markets ...

La Unión Europea

de la crisis a la unión federal

La aguda crisis financiera de 2007, que tuvo su origen en Estados Unidos, de inmediato se propagó por Europa, y con ella sus graves consecuencias políticas, sociales y económicas. Más que a una crisis cíclica, característica de las economías avanzadas, dio lugar a una gran ...

Welcome to the poisoned chalice

the destruction of Greece and the future of Europe

The economic crisis in Greece is a potential international disaster and one of the most extraordinary monetary and political dramas of our time. The financial woes of this relatively small European nation threaten the long-term viability of the Euro while exposing the flaws in the ...

La pluralidad de emisión en España, 1844-1874

Este libro aborda el desarrollo financiero de España durante la etapa en que estuvo vigente la pluralidad de bancos de emisión. España inauguró la emisión plural en 1844 y la finalizó formalmente el 19 de marzo de 1874, al firmarse el decreto de concesión del ...

Digital gold

the untold story of Bitcoin

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age. Digital ...

The incomplete currency

the future of the Euro and solutions for the Eurozone

A fact-based treatise on the Eurozone crisis, with analysis of possible solutions The Incomplete Currency is the only technical yet accessible analysis of the current Eurozone crisis from a global perspective. The discussion begins by explaining how the Euro's architecture, the relationship between finance ...

Value web

How Fintech firms are using mobile and blockchain technologies to create the internet of value

The Internet of Things is all about machines trading with machines - your fridge orders groceries; your car, fuel; your television, entertainment; and so on. However, machines cannot trade with machines if it's expensive and slow. Would you really want your TV to order the ...

Naked money

a revealing look at what it is and why it matters

We use money every day. Yet the practice of exchanging paper or bytes for goods and services seems absurd if you think about it. Naked Money explores why money exists and why it so often gets entire nations in trouble. Charles Wheelan explains with his ...

Dinero

qué es, de dónde viene, cómo funciona

¿Qué es el dinero? ¿De dónde procede? ¿Cómo se usa? Son preguntas que tradicionalmente han recibido respuestas convencionales& y erróneas. El dinero no puede considerarse algo con mero valor material, sino que se trata de una poderosa herramientapolítica. Felix Martin demuestra en este esclarecedor libro ...

What's wrong with money?

the biggest bubble of all

The expert guide to understanding and surviving monetary failure "What's Wrong with Money? "explores how and why money is valued and the warning signs that point to its eventual collapse. Author Michael Ashton is widely regarded as a premier expert on inflation, and in ...

¿Y los pobres sufren lo que deben?

¿cómo hemos llegado hasta aquí y por qué necesitamos un Plan B para Europa?

El destino de la economía mundial pende de un hilo, y Europa está haciendo todo lo posible por debilitarla, por desestabilizar a América y por generar nuevas formas de autoritarismo. Europa, que ha sido el origen de las dos grandes guerras de los últimos 100 ...

The money problem

rethinking financial regulation

Years have passed since the world experienced one of the worst financial crises in history, and while countless experts have analyzed it, many central questions remain unanswered. Should money creation be considered a public or private activity or both? What do we mean by, and ...

Por qué otros se hacen cada vez más ricos a tu costa

...y qué responsabilidad tiene el Estado y cómo juega con nuestro dinero

¿Por qué el sistema monetario es el culpable de la progresiva desigualdad social? ¿Por qué el monopolio estatal del dinero es una gran estafa al ciudadano? ¿Por qué el Estado del Bienestar es un proyecto profundamente demagógico? ¿Qué papel desempeñan realmente el Estado, el gobierno ...

Europe's deadlock

how the Euro crisis could be solved-and why it still won't happen

With new material on the astonishing 2014-15 monetary rollercoaster, an incisive chronicler of the euro's upheavals explains how Europe's single currency has lurched in and out of crisis-with widespread repercussions for Britain and the rest of the world. "Marsh is an expert chronicler ...

Librarse del Euro

encuentro de movimientos emancipatorios de los pueblos del sur de Europa

En verano del 2015 el pueblo griego, mediante un referéndum, dijo «No» a las políticas de austeridad impuestas por la Unión Europea. Por sorpresa el gobierno, en un principio contrario a la austeridad, claudicó ante la Comisión Europea y el Eurogrupo y acató sus directrices ...