{"id":4823,"date":"2022-01-13T12:21:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T17:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?post_type=book&#038;p=4823"},"modified":"2022-06-02T11:31:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T15:31:53","slug":"the-future-of-money","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/book\/the-future-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Eswar Prasad<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Subtitled <em>How the<\/em> <em>Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance<\/em>, this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/56988244-the-future-of-money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nonfiction work<\/a> by the Dyson School economist describes the forces\u2014including the rise of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin\u2014that he predicts will lead to major economic change, particularly the eventual demise of physical cash. As he notes in this volume from Harvard University Press, though such trends could have their downsides (such as an inability for regulators to keep up), the novel technologies and systems can be powerful forces for good\u2014potentially creating a new age of commerce that more smoothly facilitates international business and global transactions. Says <em>Publishers Weekly<\/em>: \u201cMarked by a refreshing absence of economic jargon and Prasad\u2019s advocacy for a more equitable world, this is a sober-minded and informative take on an overheated topic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/books\/\">More books by Cornellian authors<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subtitled How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance, this nonfiction work by Dyson School economist Eswar Prasad describes the forces\u2014including the rise of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin\u2014that he predicts will lead to major economic change, particularly the eventual demise of physical cash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8467,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"cornell_author":[],"cornell_year_book":[],"class_list":["post-4823","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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