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Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[1971, c1963]
Description
Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: "The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly achievement--monumental in its sheer bulk, monumental in the definitiveness of its treatment of innumerable issues, large and small . . . monumental,...
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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"The Great Devaluation is about the imminent and future failure of the global monetary system. Governments around the world have undertaken massive stimulus programs and printed trillions of new dollars in an effort to stimulate their sagging economies. Central Banks have manipulated their balance sheets, lowered interest rates to 0%, and dramatically expanded the global money supply. The world has never witnessed such a dramatic one-two punch of...
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Brian Armstrong stepped onto the stage with quiet confidence. He turned to the audience and shared his idea with the simple slogan: "Coinbase, the easiest way to get started with Bitcoin." For a moment late in 2018, one Bitcoin, which physically amounts to a few electrons blipping on a tiny bit of silicon, was worth $20,000-the same as a pound of gold. Libertarian technologists who believed Bitcoin would be the foundation of a new world order saw...
4) The age of cryptocurrency: how Bitcoin and digital money are challenging the global economic order
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Bitcoin became a buzzword overnight. A cyber-enigma with an enthusiastic following, it pops up in headlines and fuels endless media debate. You can apparently use it to buy anything from coffee to cars, yet few people seem to truly understand what it is. This raises the question: Why should anyone care about Bitcoin? In The Age of Cryptocurrency, Wall Street journalists Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey deliver the definitive answer to this question....
Author
Series
Moorhouse I. X. Millar lecture volume no.3
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
[c1960]