Digital technology is revolutionizing every aspect of our lives, now including money. The first in a three-part series as Jeff travels to ETH Denver, the world’s preeminent Ethereum conference, to start digging in to digital with those who are actually doing it, the insiders. Up first, world-renowned scholar, investor and, yes, philosopher-historian Manny Rincon Cruz.
Manny RinconCruz: https://twitter.com/mrinconcruz
FourWinds: www.fourwindsresearch.com
Selected books and articles mentioned or gestured to in this episode:
– Douglas North and Barry Weingast, “Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England.”
– Michael Bordo, “A Tale of Two Currencies: British and French Finance During the Napoleonic Wars”
– Tyler Goodspeed, “Legislating Instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772”
– Larry Neal, “‘I am not master of events’: the speculation of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles.”
– Niall Ferguson, “The House of Rothschild: Money’s Prophets, 1798-1848.”
– Walter Bagehot, “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”
Eurodollar University’s conversations w/Manny Rincon Cruz
https://www.eurodollar.university
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