Following bank failures in 1974, notably in Germany (Bankhaus Herstatt of Cologne on June 16) and the US (Franklin National Bank of New York on October 8), the Central Bank Governors of the G10 countries decided to set up a Committee at the BIS in Basel to improve quality and enhance the...

Chapter 1. Introduction (Paolo Savona) -- Chapter 2. Economics and money: political and epistemological perspectives of connecting and fault lines. A fil rouge from Keynes to digitization (Rainer Stefano Masera) -- Chapter 3. The Great Repricing: Central Banks and the World Economy (Mervyn...

This paper offers a critical survey of the three overlapping domains of the phygital world: the Web, the Infosphere, the Metaverse, and their innovative components – blockchain, distributed ledger technology, cryptoassets and cryptocurrencies. This requires a (bold) attempt to synthetize the...