VoxTalks Economics

S8 Ep6: Do cryptocurrencies matter?

Jan 24, 2025 · 16 min · Season 8 · Episode 6 · 15.9 MB
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Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. Can cryptocurrencies be useful? Not just for crypto bro speculators, but as a shield against the depreciation of the official currency if a government is determined to pursue inflationary policies – a proposition first argued by Friedrich Hayek in his 1976 book “The Denationalisation of Money”. Bruno Biais tells Tim Phillips how this might work and is already happening in some countries.