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Cryptoeconomics (2021)
Journal Article
Brekke, J. K., & Alsindi, W. Z. (2021). Cryptoeconomics. Internet policy review, 10(2), https://doi.org/10.14763/2021.2.1553

Cryptoeconomics describes an interdisciplinary, emergent and experimental field that draws on ideas and concepts from economics, game theory and related disciplines in the design of peer-to-peer cryptographic systems. Cryptoeconomic systems try to gu... Read More about Cryptoeconomics.

Digital scarcity (2021)
Journal Article
Brekke, J. K., & Fischer, A. (2021). Digital scarcity. Internet policy review, 10(2), https://doi.org/10.14763/2021.2.1548

Digital Scarcity is a credibly maintained limitation, imposed through software, of digital information, goods or services that may be accessed and used entirely digitally.

Hacker-engineers and their economies: The political economy of decentralised networks and ‘cryptoeconomics’ (2020)
Journal Article
Brekke, J. (2021). Hacker-engineers and their economies: The political economy of decentralised networks and ‘cryptoeconomics’. New Political Economy, 26(4), 646-659. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2020.1806223

Research by political economists typically highlights policymakers, regulators, economists and consultants as the makers of economies. This paper foregrounds a different actor entirely, what I call the ‘hacker-engineer’ as an important protagonist in... Read More about Hacker-engineers and their economies: The political economy of decentralised networks and ‘cryptoeconomics’.