Economics of Blockchain
23 Pages
Posted: 9 Mar 2016
RMIT University - School of Economics, Finance and Marketing
Université Paris II - Panthéon-Assas
RMIT University
Date Written: March 8, 2016
Abstract
Claims blockchain is more than just ICT innovation, but facilitates new types of economic organization and governance. Suggests two approaches to economics of blockchain: innovation-centred and governance-centred. Argues that the governance approach — based in new institutional economics and public choice economics — is most promising, because it models blockchain as a new technology for creating spontaneous organizations, i.e. new types of economies. Illustrates this with a case study of the Ethereum-based infrastructure protocol and platform Backfeed.
Keywords: blockchain, cryptoeconomics, catallaxy, public choice institutional economics
JEL Classification: D2, D7, P4, P00, K00, H4
Suggested Citation:
Suggested Citation
Davidson, Sinclair and De Filippi, Primavera and Potts, Jason, Economics of Blockchain (March 8, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2744751 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2744751
