Rodima-Taylor, Grimes Publish Chapter on Cryptocurrencies
William Grimes, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Senior Researcher at the African Studies Center at Boston University, contributed a chapter to the recently published Bitcoin and Beyond: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Global Governance.
The volume brings scholars of anthropology, economics, science and technology studies, and sociology together with GPE scholars in assessing the actual implications posed by Bitcoin and blockchains for contemporary global governance. Its interdisciplinary contributions provide academics, policymakers, industry practitioners and the general public with more nuanced understandings of technological change in the changing character of governance within and across the borders of nation-states.
The chapter by Grimes and Rodima-Taylor is entitled “Cryptocurrencies and Digital Payment Rails in Networked Global Governance: Perspectives on Inclusion and Innovation,” focuses on potential effects on financial inclusion.
Grimes, who has taught at Boston University since 1996, is a leading scholar of East Asian financial regionalism. His 2008 book Currency and Contest in East Asia: The Great Power Politics of Financial Regionalism won the 2010 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize and received Honorable Mention for the 2009 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award. More recently, in conjunction with the Pardee School’s Global Economic Governance Initiative, he led a research project for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to develop a guide to best practices for regional liquidity arrangements.
Rodima-Taylor’s research focuses on financial inclusion and access, fiduciary culture, migration and migrant remittances, informal economic cooperation and mutuality, land and natural resource tenure, and social and institutional innovation. She has taught sustainable development and anthropology, and participated in international development work in Africa focusing on the issues of financial inclusion and participatory development planning.
Read more about the new publication in the London School of Economics blog