Why You Can't Have A PPE Curriculum Without Bitcoin

Why You Can't Have A PPE Curriculum Without Bitcoin

Bitcoin is clearly a social phenomenon worthy of study for a proper philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) degree.In 1920, the toffs at the University of Oxford decided that those students with ambitions of entering public service needed a better degree to equip them for a modern, post-War world. They reasoned that, in order to understand social phenomena and govern effectively, you must have a firm grasp of philosophy, ethics and reasoning, politics and its history, and finally, economics. The degree known as “philosophy, politics and economics” (PPE) would be born, and first delivered....


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