An international monetary system is both a function and an instrument of prevailing power structures. Hik draws from this the conclusion that we precisely need to take money out of the hands of government. We need to denationalize it, he says. And that's where we get this vision of competing private currencies. This isn't a kind of non political, technical process. When the i m f arrives and youo demands structural adjustment, this isn't a type of non-technical process. It can have happens in peril.
Episode two of our two-part series on cryptocurrency: political theorist Stefan Eich on how crypto fits into Hayek's old neoliberal dream of private money and why that vision emerged in a new form in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
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