TY - BOOK AU - Bheemaiah,Kariappa ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory SN - 9781484226742 AV - QA76.9.D3 U1 - 005.74 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Berkeley, CA PB - Apress, Imprint: Apress KW - Database management KW - Business enterprises—Finance KW - Information technology KW - Business—Data processing KW - Banks and banking KW - Finance—History KW - Capital market KW - Database Management KW - Business Finance KW - IT in Business KW - Banking KW - Financial History KW - Capital Markets N1 - Chapter 1: Debt-Based Economy: The Intricate Dance of Debt and Money -- Chapter 2: Fragmentation of Finance -- Chapter 3: Innovating Capitalism -- Chapter 4: Complexity Economics: A New Way to Witness Capitalism -- Appendix A: Bibliography and References; Available to subscribing member institutions only. Доступно лише організаціям членам підписки N2 - This book shows how distributed ledger technologies, especially the blockchain, are transforming the finance sector in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008. It surveys the measures, tools, and theories being developed to create a new framework of monetary economics and capitalism. Kariappa Bheemaiah, a technology strategy consultant, analyzes and compares the traditional and emergent paradigms of finance and monetary economics. Blockchain: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory reviews the workings and failings of the current dominant system of fractional-reserve banking and examines the emerging technologies that are convergently challenging the status quo by defragmenting the financial sector. Readers learn how the new tools and models of econophysics and complexity economics can be applied to cashless systems to control excessive debt, systemic risk, and economic pollution UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2674-2 ER -