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Cook: Perspectives on Tokenization and Implications for the Financial System
I am happy to have the opportunity to return to and to speak in Dakar. Not far from here, I began my unexpected journey into the economics profession.1 As a graduate student at l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, I came to study philosophy and to write a thesis in African philosophy. However, I immediately started posing questions that became foundational in my conversion to economics, which would help provide the framework and skills to respond to these questions. Among them were the following: Why did a ballpoint pen that cost $0.10, at that time, in the United States cost the equivalent of $10 in Senegal? Why ... (full story)
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