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Blockchain technology is familiar to us in the form of digital currency bitcoin. And if it makes it way to the mainstream, could it change the way the world does business forever?
The novelist’s life was marked by the financial industry … and not always for the best.
China manipulates its currency, but without real economic effects on the rest of the world.
All over the world people who have been harmed by the conventional money systems are devising alternative currencies, challenging the centralised monetary policy approach.
The prevailing mandate of the South African Reserve Bank is informed by sound economics and the need to protect the institution from the whims of politicians.
You can now pay your way with apps, cryptocurrencies and other digital alternatives. Physical money might one day look like a relic of the past.
Currency first hit the scene thousands of years ago. An anthropologist explains the early origins and uses of money – and how archaeological finds fill in our picture of the past.
While the current speculation in crypto-currency and assets should make us pause, this is not a speculative driven bubble like tulips, or gold mining stocks.
The climate crisis demands not only green technologies, but a completely different approach to economic development.
The South African Reserve Bank has come under spotlight due to the critical role it must play in enabling the country to navigate rough waters. Governor Lesetja Kganyago shares his views.
Oxfam’s efforts to find solutions to the world’s inequalities are welcome but its wrongful use of “human economy” and repackaging it as a concept from high up might do more harm than good.
The high cost of imports and borrowing, as well as market volatility mean manufacturers aren’t in for an easy ride.
Money is pouring into exchange traded funds, but making a bitcoin one isn’t necessarily a good idea.
The UK’s new £1 coin is touted as being the most-secure in the world. Its dodecagonal shape harks back to an old threepenny forebear.
Public co-operation is not proof of trust in government. The Indian people did not trust elected politicians to represent them against top-down policymaking that caused enormous difficulties.
The cryptocurrency is now starting to challenge gold as the investment of choice.
Where our money comes from is deeply political and the politics involved is often highly complex.
Only by privileging an English-speaking, Western position can we say that ‘post-truth’ emerged in 2016.
The ‘Africa Rising’ narrative was disturbed in 2016 by a combination of factors. But the continent is still on firm economic development footing.
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Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
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Professor of International Political Economy, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Senior lecturer, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
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Professor of Economics, Monash University
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Twentieth Century Literary Studies, University of Southampton
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Professor and Head, School of Business, Monash University Malaysia
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Professor of FinTech History and Global Trade, Northumbria University, Newcastle