The Fiat Standard

The Fiat Standard by Saifedean Ammous Audiobook
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Product Info

Sounded ID: 9781544526454

ISBN: 9781544526454

Publication Date: December 21, 2021

Publisher: Saif House

Language: English

Author Name: Saifedean Ammous

Narrator Name: Guy Swann

Studio Narrated Audiobook 12 hrs 49 mins | BUSINESS and ECONOMICS | Money and Monetary Policy

The Fiat Standard

Publisher
Saif House
Narrator
Guy Swann

Studio Narrated Audiobook

This audiobook is a traditionally narrated work produced in a studio with a live voice actor and contains no content generated using Voice Replica technologies or synthetic narration.

n The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global bestseller The Bitcoin Standard.
This time, Ammous delves into the world's earlier shift from the gold standard to today's system of government-backed fiat money—outlining the fiat standard's purposes and failures; deriving the wider economic, political, and social implications of its use; and examining how bitcoin will affect it over time.
With penetrating insight,...

n The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global bestseller The Bitcoin Standard.
This time, Ammous delves into the world's earlier shift from the gold standard to today's system of government-backed fiat money—outlining the fiat standard's purposes and failures; deriving the wider economic, political, and social implications of its use; and examining how bitcoin will affect it over time.
With penetrating insight, Ammous analyzes global political currencies by analogy to bitcoin: how they're "mined" whenever government-guaranteed entities create loans, their lack of inherent restraints on inflation, and the rampant government intervention that has resulted in heavy, devastating, and persistent distortions to global markets for food, fuel, science, and education.
Through these comparisons, Ammous demonstrates that bitcoin could be our next step forward—providing high salability across space, just like the fiat system, but without the unchecked fiat-denominated debt. Rather than a messy hyperinflationary collapse, the rise of bitcoin could look like a debt jubilee and an orderly upgrade to the world's monetary operating system, revolutionizing global capital and energy markets.

Chapters

# Title Duration
1. Opening

0 mins 26 secs

2. About the Author

0 mins 42 secs

3. Foreword

9 mins 47 secs

4. Chapter 1 Introduction

15 mins 40 secs

5. Chapter 2 The Never-Ending Bank Holiday

37 mins 05 secs

6. Chapter 3 Fiat Technology

25 mins 14 secs

7. Chapter 4 Fiat Mining

33 mins 03 secs

8. 008 Chapter 5

39 mins 23 secs

9. Chapter 6 What Is Fiat Good For?

56 mins 40 secs

10. 010 Chapter 7

33 mins 40 secs

11. Chapter 8 Fiat Food

1 hr 07 mins

12. 012 Chapter 9

57 mins 32 secs

13. Chapter 10 Fiat Fuels

52 mins 52 secs

14. Chapter 11 Fiat States

1 hr 03 mins

15. Chapter 12 Fiat Cost-Benefit Analysis

20 mins 29 secs

16. Chapter 13 Why Bitcoin Fixes This

27 mins 25 secs

17. Chapter 14 Bitcoin Scaling

38 mins 15 secs

18. Chapter 15 Bitcoin Banking

38 mins 06 secs

19. Chapter 16 Bitcoin and Energy Markets

39 mins 24 secs

20. 020 Chapter 17

19 mins 36 secs

21. Chapter 18 Can Bitcoin Fix This

1 hr 06 mins

22. Supporters

16 mins 54 secs

23. Acknowledgements

3 mins 51 secs

24. Closing

0 mins 26 secs

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