英文标题：
《On the Use of Computer Programs as Money》
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作者：
Ross D. King
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最新提交年份：
2016
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英文摘要：
Money is a technology for promoting economic prosperity. Over history money has become increasingly abstract, it used to be hardware, gold coins and the like, now it is mostly software, data structures located in banks. Here I propose the logical conclusion of the abstraction of money: to use as money the most general form of information - computer programs. The key advantage that using programs for money (program-money) adds to the technology of money is agency. Program-money is active and thereby can fully participate in economics as economic agents. I describe the three basic technologies required to implement program-money: computational languages/logics to unambiguously describe the actions and interactions of program-money; computational cryptography to ensure that only the correct actions and interactions are performed; and a distributed computational environment in which the money can execute. I demonstrate that most of the technology for program-money has already been developed. The adoption of program-money transfers responsibility from human economic agents to money itself and has great potential economic advantages over the current passive form of money. For example in microeconomics, adding agency to money will simplify the exchange of ownership, ensure money is only used legally, automate the negotiation and forming of contracts, etc. Similar advantages occur in macroeconomics, where for example the control of the money supply could be transferred from central banks to money. It is also possible to envisage money that is not owned by any external human agent or corporation. One motivation for this is to force economic systems to behave more rationally and/or more like a specific economic theory, thereby increasing the success of economic forecasting.
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中文摘要：
货币是促进经济繁荣的一种技术。历史上，货币变得越来越抽象，过去是硬件、金币等，现在主要是软件、银行中的数据结构。在这里，我提出了货币抽象的逻辑结论：将最普遍的信息形式——计算机程序——用作货币。为钱使用程序（program money）增加了金钱技术的关键优势是代理。项目资金是活跃的，因此可以作为经济代理人充分参与经济活动。我描述了实现程序货币所需的三种基本技术：明确描述程序货币的行为和交互的计算语言/逻辑；计算加密，确保只执行正确的操作和交互；以及一个分布式计算环境，资金可以在其中执行。我证明了大部分用于项目资金的技术已经开发出来了。计划货币的采用将责任从人类经济主体转移到了货币本身，与当前被动的货币形式相比具有巨大的潜在经济优势。例如，在微观经济学中，向货币添加代理将简化所有权交换，确保货币仅合法使用，自动化谈判和合同的形成等。类似的优势也出现在宏观经济学中，例如，货币供应的控制权可以从中央银行转移到货币上。也可以设想不属于任何外部人力代理或公司的资金。这样做的一个动机是迫使经济系统表现得更加理性和/或更像一个特定的经济理论，从而提高经济预测的成功率。
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分类信息：

一级分类：Quantitative Finance 数量金融学
二级分类：General Finance 一般财务
分类描述：Development of general quantitative methodologies with applications in finance
通用定量方法的发展及其在金融中的应用
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一级分类：Computer Science 计算机科学
二级分类：Computers and Society 计算机与社会
分类描述：Covers impact of computers on society, computer ethics, information technology and public policy, legal aspects of computing, computers and education. Roughly includes material in ACM Subject Classes K.0, K.2, K.3, K.4, K.5, and K.7.
涵盖计算机对社会的影响、计算机伦理、信息技术和公共政策、计算机的法律方面、计算机和教育。大致包括ACM学科类K.0、K.2、K.3、K.4、K.5和K.7中的材料。
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一级分类：Quantitative Finance 数量金融学
二级分类：Economics 经济学
分类描述：q-fin.EC is an alias for econ.GN. Economics, including micro and macro economics, international economics, theory of the firm, labor economics, and other economic topics outside finance
q-fin.ec是econ.gn的别名。经济学，包括微观和宏观经济学、国际经济学、企业理论、劳动经济学和其他金融以外的经济专题
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