Chapter 2: Blockchain as a new digital paradigm
Martin Cimiterra
and
Jackie Krafft
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Chapter
Published:
14 Oct 2022
Page Range:
22–30
Collection:
Economics 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839106996.00007
Keywords:
Blockchain; Cryptography; Governance; Industry 4.0; Innovation; Technology
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This chapter provides a synthesis of the blockchain literature in view of making accessible the main concepts of this technology that are still obscure to many. We study in a pedagogical way the main implications that the different generations of blockchain can have on the analysis of the decentralised coordination modes of agents. We advance that if blockchain has been seen as a disruptive technology since the start, it appears now a general purpose technology as well, which strongly shapes economic implications both in terms of transactions, organizations, and occupations.

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Cover Elgar Encyclopedia on the Economics of Knowledge and Innovation
Elgar Encyclopedia on the Economics of Knowledge and Innovation
Edited by
Cristiano Antonelli https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5652-0510
Encyclopedia
Published:
14 Oct 2022
Print ISBN:
9781839106989
eISBN:
9781839106996
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839106996
Pages:
578
Collection:
Economics 2022
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