Should we legalize the act of paying a bribe?
From the website IPaidaBribe.com A few months ago I stumbled on Kaushik Basu's fascinating and readable 2011 paper Why, for a Class o...
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A 21st century U.S. trade dollar
Jumat, 02 Desember 2016
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bimetallism,
coins,
dollarization/euroization,
Federal Reserve,
Ken Rogoff,
legal tender
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"America's only unwanted, unhonoured coin." - John Willem on the silver trade dollar. The inspiration for this post comes fro...
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A modern example of Gresham's Law
Jumat, 18 November 2016
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Gresham's Law,
inflation,
sticky prices,
stock market and equities,
Zimbabwe
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Sir Thomas Gresham Anyone who makes an effort to study monetary economics quickly encounters the concept of Gresham's law, or the idea t...
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Modi's demonetization: chaos is a feature, not a bug
Minggu, 13 November 2016
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Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas,
cash,
demonetization,
Reserve Bank of India
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's aggressive demonetization of the 500 and 1000 rupee note is causing plenty of chaos in India. A general ...
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Aggressive demonetizations
Selasa, 08 November 2016
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cash,
demonetization,
Ken Rogoff,
legal tender,
Reserve Bank of India,
Riksbank,
seigniorage
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised Indians today by announcing that India's highest denomination notes, the 500 and 1000 rupee, wil...
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OneCoin round 2 - it's all about the "family" and merchants
The saga of OneCoin continues. We've talked about the issues they might be running into with using big numbers for their currency , how...
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Thoughts on Rogoff's 'Curse of Cash'
The US$5000 banknote, destroyed in 1969 along with the $10,000, $1000, and $500 notes With the publication of his new book The Curse of Cash...
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How anonymous is cash?
Kamis, 27 Oktober 2016
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anonymity,
Bitcoin,
cash,
coins,
De Nederlandsche Bank,
gold,
Ken Rogoff
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Dutch 10 guilder note. Holland and Lebanon are the only countries to have issued banknotes with bar codes. One of the interesting things tha...
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The strange mania for Swiss National Bank shares
The shares of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), Switzerland's central bank, have almost doubled since July, despite there being no real new...
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Bitcoin, drowning in a sea of credit card rewards
Satoshi Nakamoto kicked off his famous 2008 white pape r with the line: "Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively o...
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