Wildcat currency : how the virtual money revolution is transforming the economy /: how the virtual money revolution is transforming the economy. ([2014])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edward Castronova.
• Authors: Castronova, Edward
• Contents: Weirdly normal: virtual economies and virtual money -- Forms of money -- Is it legal? -- Is it money? -- Wealth, power, and happiness: the effects of counting money -- Currency and confidence -- How money will evolve -- Wildcat currency and the state -- Epilogue. Dear politicians: please don't screw this up.
• Publisher Details: New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 265 pages)
• Subjects: 332.4; Money; Tokens; Exchange; Value; Jettons; Jetons; Échange (Économie politique); Valeur; jettons; value (economic concept); BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Theory; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- E-Commerce -- General (see also COMPUTERS) -- (Electronic Commerce); Jettons; Exchange; Money; Tokens; Value
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780300187410; 0300187416; 9781306827959; 1306827957
• Related ISBNs: 9780300186130; 0300186134
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254 and index.; Note: Online resource; title from e-book title screen (ebrary platform, viewed October 30, 2014).; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.