Hosted by David Beckworth of the Mercatus Center, Macro Musings pulls back the curtain on the important macroeconomic issues of the past, present, and future.
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143 – Rohan Grey on Digital Currency, Privacy, and Modern Monetary Theory
Rohan Grey is a legal scholar and the research director of the Digital Fiat Currency Institute. He joins the show today to make the case for digital legal tender. David and Rohan also discuss privacy issues related to digital currency, getting the public onboard with a digital currency proposal, modern monetary theory, and how it is different than mainstream economics.
Transcript for the episode: https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/podcasts/02112019/future-digital-fiat-currency
Rohan’s Twitter: @rohangrey
Rohan’s Cornell profile: https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/admissions/degrees/graduate-legal-studies/JSD-Student-Profiles-Rohan-Grey.cfm
Related Links:
*Central Bank Digital Currency and the Future of Monetary Policy* by Michael Bordo and Andrew Levin
https://www.nber.org/papers/w23711
*Winds of Change: The Case for New Digital Currency* by Christine Lagarde
https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2018/11/13/sp111418-winds-of-change-the-case-for-new-digital-currency
*The Case for Digital Legal Tender: The Macroeconomic Policy Implications of Digital Fiat Currency* by Rohan Grey and Jonathan Dharmapalan
https://www.ecurrency.net/static/resources/201802/TheMacroeconomicImplicationsOfDigitalFiatCurrencyEVersion.pdf
*Banking in a Digital Fiat Currency Regime* by Rohan Grey
https://custom.cvent.com/20310C03166C4C11B1AA63B0D6300264/files/Event/6230e8320cad4d97a45b8dcdc6c44200/aaeeabdc5cee41f5a8ad0a7e869faed8.pdf
*Mobile Finance in Developing Countries: Macroeconomic Implications and Potential* by Rohan Grey
http://www.binzagr-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/WP-116.pdf
David’s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com
David’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth