Eswar Prasad
Eswar Prasad is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy and professor of economics at Cornell University. He is also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the New Century Chair in International Trade and Economics, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prasad’s latest book is The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Currencies and Finance.
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Digital currencies are set to upend paper currencies, but it likely won’t be the decentralized utopia some hope it will be.