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	Podcast:		Interchain.FM
	Episode:		Agoric: Smart Contracts & Funding Public Goods
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:48:40
	Publish Date:		2019-12-03 21:12:53
	Description:		“Contract Law and the State of Nature” by Anthony T. Kronman (1985). The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Volume 1, Issue 1, SPRING 1985, Pages 5–32. A great introduction to mechanisms of contract enforcement outside the state. Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy by Gillian K. Hadfield (2016) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29587067-rules-for-a-flat-world Assurance Contracts: mechanisms for incentivizing the creation of public goods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contract Dominant Assurance Contracts https://www.cato-unbound.org/2017/06/07/alex-tabarrok/making-markets-work-better-dominant-assurance-contracts-some-other-helpful Agoric’s Electronic Rights Protocol (ERTP). How cryptocurrencies and digital assets are minted on Agoric’s platform. https://agoric.com/documentation/ertp/guide/ https://github.com/Agoric/ERTP Agoric’s Zoe framework for smart contracts: https://agoric.com/documentation/zoe/guide/ https://github.com/Agoric/ERTP/tree/master/core/zoe The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando de Soto https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86154.The_Mystery_of_Capital The Digital Path by Mark S. Miller and Marc Stiegler (2003). A paper on how smart contracts can be used for property title, pre-Bitcoin. https://agoric.com/assets/pdf/papers/digital-path.pdf Finding The Greedy, Prodigal, and Suicidal Contracts at Scale (2018) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.06038.pdf Great paper that characterizes a number of problems that smart contracts can have, and how common they are. They used symbolic execution to search through nearly a million contracts for indicators of various problems.
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