ECSA Economic White Paper

• See also: Economic Space Agency

Contents

Protocols for a Distributed Crypto-Economy: see our entry on Protocols for Cryptoeconomic Networks

The crypto-political economy of the Economic Space Agency

1 Introduction

• 1.1 The economy is a network
• 1.2 Outline of the economic white paper
• 1.3 Design principles of the ECSA economy

2 Crypto-Political Economy

• 2.1 The ECSA agenda
• 2.2 An economic primer
• 2.3 The Hayekian turn: knowledge, price and spontaneous order
• 2.4 Transcending Hayek and his digital disciples: the market, prices and profits as protocols
• 2.5 Do ‘big data’ change the story?
• 2.6 A derivative framing of Hayek

3 Distributed Markets in the New Economic Space

• 3.1 Market is a “space of exchange”
• 3.2 Sociality as a design field
• 3.3 Mutual issuance of ‘rights’
• 3.4 Tokens and money
• 3.5 Mutual issuance of tokens
• 3.6 Mutual issuance of ‘equity’
• 3.7 Tokens and network derivatives
• 3.8 Knowledge, economic agents, economic spaces
• 3.9 Trust
• 3.10 Significance

4 Performance Indices in the new economic space

• 4.1 The task
• 4.2 Valuing care, valuing art, valuing intangibles, valuing biosphere
• 4.3 Performance indices put at par: a derivative logic of the social
• 4.4 ECSA as a data union, not a data market
• 4.5 The ECSA surplus

5 Money in a Distributed Cryptoeconomy

• 5.1 Money without state backing
• 5.2 The functions of money
• 5.2.1 Medium of exchange and distributed exchange protocols
• 5.2.2 Store of value
• 5.2.3 Unit of account
• 5.3 The role of credit

6 ECSA’s Tokens and ‘Fundamental Value’

• 6.1 Background
• 6.2 MV=PQ: Real Exchange Economy
• 6.3 MV=PQ: Monetary Economy

7 ECSA’s Token System

• 7.1 Distributed exchange protocols and tokens
• 7.2 Base tokens
• 7.3 Individual economic agent commodity tokens
• 7.4 Individual economic agent liquidity tokens
• 7.5 Individual economic agent stake tokens

8 Issues of Governance

• 8.1 Governance of stake tokens
• 8.2 ECSA tokens and ECSA securities: the roles of ECSA Finance and ECSA Agent
• 8.3 New issuance of ECSA Security Tokens