Long Take: World Economic Forum CBDC analysis in the era of Populism, Institutionalism, and Hofstede's Cultural DNA

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• Summary: We anchor our writing around the World Economic Forum 223 page report on CBDCs and stablecoins. The analysis highlights the key conclusions across several white papers in the report. We then add a layer of meta analysis around the language in the report, and question what it is trying to accomplish, and whether that will work with the Web3 revolution. This leads us to think about the tension between populism, as represented by crypto, and institutionalism, as represented by banking structures. We discuss theories of cultural and national DNA, and the rise of populism, as difficult problems to solve for any global alignment.

• Topics: macroeconomics, stablecoins, CBDC, society and culture, populism, institutionalism, regulation, geopolitics, financial inclusion, philosophy

• Tags: World Economic Forum, Hofstede, Covid

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