143 Rohan Grey on Digital Currency, Privacy, and Modern Monetary Theory

Published: Feb. 11, 2019, 5:30 a.m.

Rohan Grey is a legal scholar and the research director of the Digital Fiat Currency Institute. He joins the show today to make the case for digital legal tender. David and Rohan also discuss privacy issues related to digital currency, getting the public onboard with a digital currency proposal, modern monetary theory, and how it is different than mainstream economics.

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Transcript for the episode:\xa0https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/podcasts/02112019/future-digital-fiat-currency

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\xa0Rohan\u2019s Twitter: @rohangrey

Rohan\u2019s Cornell profile: https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/admissions/degrees/graduate-legal-studies/JSD-Student-Profiles-Rohan-Grey.cfm

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Related Links:

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*Central Bank Digital Currency and the Future of Monetary Policy* by Michael Bordo and Andrew Levin

https://www.nber.org/papers/w23711

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*Winds of Change: The Case for New Digital Currency* by Christine Lagarde

https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2018/11/13/sp111418-winds-of-change-the-case-for-new-digital-currency

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*The Case for Digital Legal Tender: The Macroeconomic Policy Implications of Digital Fiat Currency* by Rohan Grey and Jonathan Dharmapalan

https://www.ecurrency.net/static/resources/201802/TheMacroeconomicImplicationsOfDigitalFiatCurrencyEVersion.pdf

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*Banking in a Digital Fiat Currency Regime* by Rohan Grey

https://custom.cvent.com/20310C03166C4C11B1AA63B0D6300264/files/Event/6230e8320cad4d97a45b8dcdc6c44200/aaeeabdc5cee41f5a8ad0a7e869faed8.pdf

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*Mobile Finance in Developing Countries: Macroeconomic Implications and Potential* by Rohan Grey

http://www.binzagr-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/WP-116.pdf

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David\u2019s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com
David\u2019s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth