Bitcoin is a scarce digital asset: more of a cryptocommodity than a cryptocurrency, it represents the equivalent of digital gold. It is used as money, as gold has always been, but it is not a good unit of account: extreme deflationary price instability has hampered its usability, making it...

Organizational growth and performance hinge upon the effective implementation and transfer of technological knowledge. Implementing and transferring such knowledge however can be difficult and time-consuming. Interestingly, we understand little about what determines the performance of...

This article seeks to explain Africa's current quot;period of unparalleled economic success,quot; following decades of economic stagnation. Using newly available data, we investigate whether international commodity price increases (our quot;metalsquot; hypothesis) or policy reforms (our...

Behavioral economic research has tended to ignore the role of cultural differences in financial and economic decision-making. The authors suggest that a systematic bias affects existing behavioral economic theory financial and economic judgments, whether rational or irrational, are often assumed...

Bitcoin is the most successful cryptocurrency and one of the best types of private money ever. The blockchain technology underlying bitcoin is presented with the spotlight on distributed consensus, allowing for proper understanding of its peculiarities. Notarization and trust anchoring are...

The global governance of large corporations or corporate governmentality changed over time through the penetration of the economy in all aspects of society but which has shaped the monetary system as an integral part of corporate governmentality and which gave it a big push in the last forty...

Since time of globalization, discussion on de-globalization started. COVID-19 accelerated de-globalization. This paper argues that absolute de-globalization is difficult choice for any country. Rather countries with similar economic conditions or political ideologies, will unite and make their...

The possible creation of an Asian Economic Zone has been debated quite often in the last years. This is not shared by countries specially attached to the strict dimension of national sovereignty. The worldly trends of globalization and interdependence turn it into an urgency as Asia is required...

In the work, The Great Recession and the Rhetorical Canons of Law and Economics, 58 LOY. L. REV. 101 (forthcoming, 2012), the Author examined the role of law and economics in the Great Recession of 2008 and onward by examining neoclassical and contemporary law and economics from the perspective...

O presente artigo condensa um pacote de medidas políticas anticrise conducentes a operar uma profunda modificação das estruturas sociais, económicas e financeiras portuguesas, nos domínios da pobreza e do desemprego. This paper condenses a package of anti crisis measures that leading to...