John C. Edmunds is Professor of Finance at Babson College. He has taught at overseas MBA programs in six countries and five other schools in the Boston area. He is the author of more than 350 articles and cases published both in academic and practitioner journals, and nine books.Juan Antonio Lillo Paredes is Head of the Finance & AI Lab at the Graduate School of Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola and Professor at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, specializing in capital markets. He collaborates with Bloomberg, CFA Institute, and OECD.

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• Preamble: Overlapping Financial WorldsFirst Section: Financial Assets Emerge, Become the Accelerant of Wealth Creation, and then Become the Modern Measure of Wealth Chapter 1   Financial Assets Emerge. The New Genie: Surges of Growth and Sudden Tumbles.Chapter 2.  How the World Arrived at the Traditional Financial SystemChapter 3.   Defects of the Traditional Financial SystemChapter 4.  Envisioning the Untapped Potential for Broader Access to Financial ServicesChapter 5. Population, Employment, Migration, and AssimilationSecond Section: The Parallel Financial EconomyChapter 6. Digital MoneyChapter 7. Growing Pains and Governance DefectsChapter 8. Platforms Pop Up by the ThousandsChapter 9. Macro Effects: The Paradox of CompositionChapter 10. Financial Intermediary That Will Not Fail and A National Financial System That Will Not CrashChapter 11. Building Blocks of a New Financial ArchitectureChapter 12. Keeping One’s Money SafeChapter 13. Secrecy, Privacy, and AnonymityThird Section: Broad Implications: Bringing the Cybercurrency World in the Cloud into Constructive Contact with the Physical WorldChapter 14. Traditional and New Systems Alongside Each Other: Coexistence, Not Conflict  Chapter 15.  Combining Innovations to Align Objectives, Address the Needs of All Individuals, and Transcend National IdentityChapter 16.   Decentralization, Anonymity, and Transcending the National RestrictionsChapter 17. Overlaying Parallel Associations on Traditional Political Entities

John C. Edmunds is Professor of Finance at Babson College. He has taught at overseas MBA programs in six countries and five other schools in the Boston area. He is the author of more than 350 articles and cases published both in academic and practitioner journals, and nine books.Juan Antonio Lillo Paredes is Head of the Finance & AI Lab at the Graduate School of Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola and Professor at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, specializing in capital markets. He collaborates with Bloomberg, CFA Institute, and OECD.

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• Preamble: Overlapping Financial WorldsFirst Section: Financial Assets Emerge, Become the Accelerant of Wealth Creation, and then Become the Modern Measure of Wealth Chapter 1   Financial Assets Emerge. The New Genie: Surges of Growth and Sudden Tumbles.Chapter 2.  How the World Arrived at the Traditional Financial SystemChapter 3.   Defects of the Traditional Financial SystemChapter 4.  Envisioning the Untapped Potential for Broader Access to Financial ServicesChapter 5. Population, Employment, Migration, and AssimilationSecond Section: The Parallel Financial EconomyChapter 6. Digital MoneyChapter 7. Growing Pains and Governance DefectsChapter 8. Platforms Pop Up by the ThousandsChapter 9. Macro Effects: The Paradox of CompositionChapter 10. Financial Intermediary That Will Not Fail and A National Financial System That Will Not CrashChapter 11. Building Blocks of a New Financial ArchitectureChapter 12. Keeping One’s Money SafeChapter 13. Secrecy, Privacy, and AnonymityThird Section: Broad Implications: Bringing the Cybercurrency World in the Cloud into Constructive Contact with the Physical WorldChapter 14. Traditional and New Systems Alongside Each Other: Coexistence, Not Conflict  Chapter 15.  Combining Innovations to Align Objectives, Address the Needs of All Individuals, and Transcend National IdentityChapter 16.   Decentralization, Anonymity, and Transcending the National RestrictionsChapter 17. Overlaying Parallel Associations on Traditional Political Entities

John C. Edmunds is Professor of Finance at Babson College. He has taught at overseas MBA programs in six countries and five other schools in the Boston area. He is the author of more than 350 articles and cases published both in academic and practitioner journals, and nine books.Juan Antonio Lillo Paredes is Head of the Finance & AI Lab at the Graduate School of Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola and Professor at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, specializing in capital markets. He collaborates with Bloomberg, CFA Institute, and OECD.

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• Preamble: Overlapping Financial WorldsFirst Section: Financial Assets Emerge, Become the Accelerant of Wealth Creation, and then Become the Modern Measure of Wealth Chapter 1   Financial Assets Emerge. The New Genie: Surges of Growth and Sudden Tumbles.Chapter 2.  How the World Arrived at the Traditional Financial SystemChapter 3.   Defects of the Traditional Financial SystemChapter 4.  Envisioning the Untapped Potential for Broader Access to Financial ServicesChapter 5. Population, Employment, Migration, and AssimilationSecond Section: The Parallel Financial EconomyChapter 6. Digital MoneyChapter 7. Growing Pains and Governance DefectsChapter 8. Platforms Pop Up by the ThousandsChapter 9. Macro Effects: The Paradox of CompositionChapter 10. Financial Intermediary That Will Not Fail and A National Financial System That Will Not CrashChapter 11. Building Blocks of a New Financial ArchitectureChapter 12. Keeping One’s Money SafeChapter 13. Secrecy, Privacy, and AnonymityThird Section: Broad Implications: Bringing the Cybercurrency World in the Cloud into Constructive Contact with the Physical WorldChapter 14. Traditional and New Systems Alongside Each Other: Coexistence, Not Conflict  Chapter 15.  Combining Innovations to Align Objectives, Address the Needs of All Individuals, and Transcend National IdentityChapter 16.   Decentralization, Anonymity, and Transcending the National RestrictionsChapter 17. Overlaying Parallel Associations on Traditional Political Entities