Bitcoin: la revanche inattendue des libertariens

Pierre Schweitzer ()
Additional contact information
Pierre Schweitzer: LID2MS - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Droit des Médias et Mutations Sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: Serge Schweitzer, an economist and disciple of the Austrian School of Economics, has always displayed his libertarian sympathies. Following in the footsteps of economists such as Ludwig Von Mises or Murray Rothbard, he has always denounced the monopoly of governments in the production of money through central banks. This situation is now being called into question by a technological innovation: crypto-currencies (or cyber-currencies), foremost among which is Bitcoin. To honor Serge Schweitzer's career and his fight for a free currency, the author praises Bitcoin and outlines the main economic and political prospects offered by this innovation. Despite its revolutionary character from a technological and political point of view, Bitcoin faces regulatory barriers that will be difficult to overcome, and which the author analyzes in the conclusion of this article.

Keywords: radicality; Monetary economics; Bitcoin; Bitcoin blockchain; Libertarianism; Libertarian; Austrian school; Mises; Currency; Cypherpunks; Money; Blockchain; radicalité; bitcoin; monnaie; libertariens; économie monétaire; cypherpunk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-pay
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://amu.hal.science/hal-02120767v3
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in Un universitaire entre droit et économie, Presses Universitaires d'Aix-Marseille, 2019, 978-2-73141145-4

Downloads: (external link)
https://amu.hal.science/hal-02120767v3/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02120767

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().