Soichiro Takagi – författare

This practical introduction explains the field of Blockchain Economics, the economic models emerging with the implementation of distributed ledger technology. These models are characterized by three factors: open platform business models, cryptotoken money supplies, and Initial Coin Offerings as a new and official form of financing. The book covers a variety of approaches from a business and academic perspective, ranging from financial theory, complexity, and open innovation networks to behavioral economics, self-determination theory, public policy, and financial inclusion.Unlike existing titles, this book draws on worldwide blockchain industry experts to define the new discipline of Blockchain Economics and provide novel theoretical and conceptual resources for the future of this fast-developing economy. The primer also highlights the wider theme of blockchain as an institutional technology, in that many value transfer interactions might be shifted to automated networks, decreasing the number of human-operated institutions.As well as stimulating further research, and implementation by business innovators and public policy strategists, the book can also be used as a foundational textbook in courses on Blockchain Economics.

Cryptoeconomic Theory explores the theories shaping blockchain adoption and its potential role as the native economic system for AI. The modern world is already one in which AI systems are economically active, and staying up-to-date as these systems grow, change, and develop is crucial. Within these pages, subject-matter experts define, discuss, and demonstrate blockchain and AI in contemporary case studies involving protocol institutions, computable economies, real-world digital assets, crypto-AI-quantum finance, digital economic infrastructure, and much more.Blockchain—distributed ledger technology—is a "money technology", but more fundamentally, it is a core information technology for secure validated computing with cryptoeconomic mechanisms. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers and practitioners interested in blockchain, AI, and keeping abreast of accelerating developments in economics, digital assets, AI science, quantum, and business management will find this book essential.

Information technology (IT) affects every aspect of modern society from daily communication to business models and politics. Developments in IT are especially important to business organizations. They not only alter the internal structure of departments and divisions but also the relationships among countries, regions, and entities in the market. In other words, information technology affects how people cooperate to produce value.In Reweaving the Economy, Soichiro Takagi provides an integrated view in order to understand the impact of IT on changing organizational structures in an era of cloud computing and mass collaboration, which are swiftly changing national economies in terms of productivity and employment. The analyses are reinforced by microeconomic analysis on organizational structures based on transaction-cost economics, which provides the foundation for firms' decisions on organizational structure. Additionally, Takagi considers the importance of national culture as a determinant of foreign direct investment in the service sector to offer insights into international production and sharing information services.