作者简介

Dr. Saifedean Ammous is an economist, educator, and author of The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, the first study of the economics of bitcoin, and the best-selling book on bitcoin, translated to more than 25 languages. Dr. Ammous teaches economics on his online learning platform, saifedean.com, and also hosts The Bitcoin Standard Podcast. He has two forthcoming books, The Fiat Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Human Civilization, and a university-level economics textbook, Principles of Economics.

内容简介

In The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global bestseller The Bitcoin Standard.

This time, Ammous delves into the world’s earlier shift from the gold standard to today’s system of government-backed fiat money—outlining the fiat standard’s purposes and failures; deriving the wider economic, political, and social implications of its use; and examining how bitcoin will affect it over time.

With penetrating insight, Ammous analyzes global political currencies by analogy to bitcoin: how they’re “mined” whenever government-guaranteed entities create loans, their lack of inherent restraints on inflation, and the rampant government intervention that has resulted in heavy, devastating, and persistent distortions to global markets for food, fuel, science, and education.

Through these comparisons, Ammous demonstrates that bitcoin could be our next step forward—providing high salability across space, just like the fiat system, but without the unchecked fiat-denominated debt. Rather than a messy hyperinflationary collapse, the rise of bitcoin could look like a debt jubilee and an orderly upgrade to the world’s monetary operating system, revolutionizing global capital and energy markets.


Dr. Saifedean Ammous is an economist, educator, and author of The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, the first study of the economics of bitcoin, and the best-selling book on bitcoin, translated to more than 25 languages. Dr. Ammous teaches economics on his online learning platform, saifedean.com, and also hosts The Bitcoin Standard Podcast. He ...

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豆瓣评论

  • james
    大部分重复 The Bitcoin Standard 的内容,前几章可以看一下,后面涉及到非金融领域的影响有些牵强了01-03
  • 一腿毛毛
    对法币本位形成的解释很有启发,它并非完全是政府单方面推动的结果。04-07

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