MA Thesis Defense

Friday January 14 @ 2pm New York Time

Thesis Title:

“Reconstructing Money: Toward a Philosophy of Cryptocurrencies”

Abstract:

The primary aim of this thesis is to revisit the fundamental questions about the essence and nature of money in order to understand how the idea of cryptocurrency would disrupt the general conception of money, exchange, and value. The motivation of the thesis comes from the inappropriateness of the dominant theories of money and from their inability to contribute to the conversation on the current socio-technological transformation of money through the emergence of cryptocurrencies. The thesis's main argument is that it would not be possible to investigate the true potentialities of cryptocurrency, as a new form of money, while the misleading assumptions of mainstream economics on the nature of money are presupposed. In fact, the thesis questions the philosophical underpinning of the orthodox narrative about the nature of money as it believes that this is the reason behind the inability of orthodox economics to see the emerging potentialities of the cryptocurrency phenomenon.

GCAS is proud to announce that Salman Sadeghi from Iran will be defending his MA thesis on Friday January 14th. This is a unique defense because it will mark one of the first times (if not the first time) that our GCASy token was used so that a student from Iran was able to compose a bold new thesis that relates the logic of a decentralized cryptocurrency with contemporary continental philosophy.

Professor Ole Bjerg (Copenhagen Business School) will serve an an external reader ensuring a quality contribution to this new field of research was performed.