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title: "Crypto-macroeconomics"
author: "Potts, J.; Berg, C.; Davidson, S."
date: "2022-08-31"
url: "https://chrisberg.org/2022/08/crypto-macroeconomics%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc/"
type: "Book chapters"
published_in: "Book chapters"
doi: "10.2139/ssrn.4205354"
topics: "Blockchain and the digital economy, Cryptocurrency and digital money"
---

# Crypto-macroeconomics

With Jason Potts and Sinclair Davidson. Book chapter, [available at SSRN.](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4205354)

**Abstract:**This chapter presents a Wagnerian vision of macroeconomics as a hybrid of several schools of thought and analytic frameworks, including public choice theory, constitutional economics, complexity economics, and evolutionary economics. We then review recent economic analysis of emerging crypto-economic systems. Toward synthesis, we propose that Wagnerian macroeconomics is a useful framework to understand how blockchains and crypto assets provide economic infrastructure and institutions for new private order economies, a new research field we call crypto-macroeconomics. We explore four proposed subfields of crypto-macroeconomics: technology, constitutions, money, and policy.