{"product_id":"the-currency-cold-war-david-birch-9781913019075","title":"The Currency Cold War: Cash and Cryptography, Hash Rates and Hegemony","description":"The way that money works now is a blip. It's a temporary institutional arrangement agreed \u003cbr\u003ein response to specific political, technological and economic circumstances. As these \u003cbr\u003ecircumstances change, so money must change. Many people think that it will undergo a \u003cbr\u003epretty significant change in the very near future and we need to start planning for the \u003cbr\u003ecoming era of digital currency. The historian Niall Ferguson wrote in 2019 that \"if America is \u003cbr\u003esmart, it will wake up and start competing for dominance in digital payments\". Competing \u003cbr\u003efor this new currency dominance could mean a new cold war in cyberspace with, for \u003cbr\u003eexample, Facebook's private currency facing off against China's public currency facing off \u003cbr\u003eagainst a digital euro. Or would a digital dollar win this new space race?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Birch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1913019071\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781913019075\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e London School of Economics and Political Scie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/27\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"David Birch","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43989018870015,"sku":"9781913019075","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_97751ff1-7aef-4ddf-9a10-175ae056c2ba.jpg?v=1683297441","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-currency-cold-war-david-birch-9781913019075","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}