Treaty of Paris vs. Treaty of Niagara: Rethinking Canadian economic history in the 21st century

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 1325-1348
Author(s):  
Angela Redish
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Canadian Economic History

Essays in Canadian Economic History

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-500
Author(s):  
John Bonnett
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Canadian Economic History

Cryptocurrencies, Evolution of Means of Payments and Validity of Monetary Principles

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-498
Author(s):  
Edoardo Beretta
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Statistical Evidence ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Financial Bubble ◽  
Excess Liquidity ◽  
Real Value ◽  
Evolving Context

The paper explores the role, evolution and ruling principles of the concept of “money” in the 21st Century. In this continuously evolving context, cryptocurrencies and Blockchain technology are widely considered the most relevant monetary innovations of the last decades. By means of a macro-founded logical-analytical approach combined with statistical evidence, the paper provides arguments: 1. dismissing the “innovation myth” behind cryptocurrencies because of de facto representing a comeback of the private issue of means of payments and, more problematically, seigniorage at its best; 2. confirming that crypto-tokens do not comply with basic, still ruling monetary principles; 3. suggesting that excess liquidity is already invested in crypto-markets (which are themselves “inflationary”, namely not backed by real value (i.e. GDP). The concrete risk is, once again in economic history, represented by facing a financial bubble.

The Brazilian Economy in the 20th Century

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert S. Klein ◽  
Francisco Vidal Luna
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
The World

The 20th century represents a crucial period in Brazil’s economic history, when an agrarian, rural-dominated society became an urban, industrialized country with a complex financial sector and a large service sector. This economic transformation fueled by coffee exports led to profound demographic and social changes as millions of European and Asian immigrants were integrated into Brazilian society, followed by a massive shift of native-born migrants from the northeast to the dynamic southeast of Brazil, particularly for the state of São Paulo, which became the richest, most industrialized, and most populous state of the nation. The second half of the 20th century saw the creation of a modern industrial sector and the modernization of national agriculture, which in the 21st century made Brazil one of the most important producers of grain and animal protein in the world.

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