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SUMMARY:Is Bitcoin a Decentralized Payment Mechanism?
DESCRIPTION:Is Bitcoin a Decentralized Payment Mechanism? by William Luther\, Florida Atlantic University \nAbstract: We make a distinction between centralized\, decentralized\, and distributed payment mechanisms. A centralized payment mechanism processes a transaction using a trusted third party. A decentralized payment mechanism processes a transaction between the parties to the transaction. A distributed payment mechanism relies on the network of users to process a transaction on a shared ledger. We maintain that bitcoin is neither a centralized nor a decentralized payment mechanism. It is\, instead\, a distributed payment mechanism. We then consider decentralized and centralized aspects of the broader bitcoin payment space. \nView the talk here.
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SUMMARY:Property Rights without Transfer Rights: A Study of Indian Land Allotment
DESCRIPTION:Professor Christian Dippel (UCLA) discusses the paternalistic motives and effects of restrictions on land rights. He showed how transfer limits produced marked negative effects for agriculture and development of Indian land allotments\, advocating for increased decentralized choice among tribes.\n\n\nView the talk here.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/property-rights-indian-land/
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SUMMARY:Overcoming Governance Challenges and Partisan Divides
DESCRIPTION:CGM hosted a discussion with former Congressmen David Jolly and Patrick Murphy. The event was co-organized by BridgePitt (link) and co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science at Pitt (link). Over the course of an hour the Congressmen shared their unique perspective working in a deeply divided political environment\, on opposite sides of the aisle and took questions from the audience.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/overcoming-governance-challenges-and-partisan-divides/
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SUMMARY:Misdemeanor Prosecution
DESCRIPTION:Misdemeanor Prosecution by Jennifer Doleac\, Texas A&M University
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/misdemeanor-prosecution-2/
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SUMMARY:The Plight of the Uyghur Muslims in China
DESCRIPTION:Our speakers were: \n\nSean Roberts\nNury Turkel\nMihrigul Tursun.\n\nSean Roberts\, Director\, International Development Program\, Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. \nRoberts is the author of the book The War on the Uyghurs\, which has just been released by Princeton University Press. Nury Turkel\, who was just appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a Commissioner to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. He is also the co-founder of the Uyghur Human Rights Council. \nMihrigul Tursun\, a Uyghur who survived the camps in Xinjiang. She now resides in Washington\, DC. Special thanks to our event co-sponsors: Congregation Beth Shalom\, Islamic Center of Pittsburgh\, and the Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/the-plight-of-the-uyghur-muslims-in-china/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Conversastion: Belarus at the Brink? Domestic and Global Dimensions
DESCRIPTION:CGM hosted a panel discussion featuring four eminent young voices from Belarus that analyzing the protests unfolding in that country. Situated between the EU and Russia\, Belarus is a former Soviet republic led for the past 26 years by President Alexander Lukashenka. Lukashenka declared himself winner of the recent presidential election on August 9\, despite widespread claims of vote rigging. Belarusians then took to the streets\, starting the largest protest movement in the country’s young history that has no sign of stopping. What is unfolding in Belarus? What are the economic and geopolitical impacts of this protest movement? What role is civil society and digital media playing in these events? Speakers  \n\nAndrei Kazakevich\, Director of the Institute of Political Studies\, Political Sphere\, Belarus \nKateryna Bornukova\, Academic Director of BEROC Economic Research Center\, Belarus \nRyhor Niznikau\, Senior Research Fellow\, EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood and Russia\, Finnish Institute of International Affairs\nTatsiana Chulitskaya\, Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy\, Researcher\, Vytautas Magnus University\, Lithuania\n\nThe conversation was moderated by CGM Director Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili.
URL:https://pitt-cgm.dotfoundry.co/event/virtual-conversastion-belarus-at-the-brink-domestic-and-global-dimensions/
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SUMMARY:The Competitive Governance of Units of Account in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Professor White (George Mason University) discussed the emergence of the modern monetary system with a focus on the historical development of units of account and media of exchange. He linked the rise of the state monetary system to current conceptions of the potential of alternative forms of currency. A lack of networked properties and the existence of transaction costs between monies underpinned his skepticism for usability of cryptocurrencies outside of stablecoins as a unit of account and medium of exchange.
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