The Austrian school of economics has played a key contribution toward an improved understanding of the characteristics of economic innovation. Over recent decades the language and concepts of innovation theory has broadened to non-market settings, among other things giving rise to a voluminous...

There is growing interest in using distributed ledger technologies, such as blockchain, to support social assistance activities. Non-profit organisations, such as charities and philanthropic foundations, have come under closer scrutiny in the wake of highly publicised financial scandals. These...

This paper presents ‘crypto public choice’ which examines the economics of collective decision making in the functioning of blockchain protocols and among related communities of users. We introduce the blockchain community to public choice theory and show how it can be applied to the study...