Economics
Rome and the Indian Ocean: The Classical World in a Global Context
Scholarly Review De Romanis, F. (2015). Comparative Perspectives on the Pepper Trade. F. De Romanis and M. Maiuro (eds.), Across the [...]
Merchants and the Tokugawa Political Order
The Tokugawa political order was maintained by a system that some researchers have referred to as centralized feudalism. The structure [...]
Shares 2.0
I want you to imagine for a minute a new form of shares that security companies can issue. The security [...]
The Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan
Throughout the world, the 16th century was a time of change, whether Western or Eastern. The Tokugawa shogunate had taken [...]
The Japanese Processes of Unification and Reunification
The opening of trade between Europe and Asia in the 15th century led to the arrival of Europeans in Japan [...]
Collectivism and Protagoras of Abdera
Faith Ridler (2021) managed to capture many of the aspects of intellectual dishonesty and bankruptcy in her article in the [...]
The Library Analogy
Some people think that storing data on Bitcoin is analogous to a public service. There is an error with this [...]
The Anarchist Fallacy
A major fallacy of the anarchist idea that we can create a free society using assassination markets derives from transaction [...]
The Source of Dignity
It is common to see reflections on dignity and many individuals who have never been poor reflect on helping others. [...]
The King’s Wi-Fi
The proof-of-work definition that I used in describing how Bitcoin solved the Byzantine generals problem [1], when questioned by James [...]
Offline Addressing
When I initially launched Bitcoin in 2009, I noted two ways of sending bitcoin [1]: There are two ways to [...]
The Short versus the Long Term?
All positive social change comes at a cost. Many executives of current organisations attempt to argue that the very reason [...]