--- begin forwarded text Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 15:06:38 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: CIPE News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: New Book: The End of Money and the Struggle for Financial Privacy Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CIPE is pleased to announce the arrival of a new book in our bookstore: The End of Money and the Struggle for Financial Privacy By Richard W. Rahn Technology has fast outpaced governments' ability to maintain control of electronic finance. Global financial networks and systems allow any asset whose value is recognized and guaranteed by a reliable financial institution to be instantaneously transferred from one person to another. Private institutions are already developing "digital dollars" that will someday reduce transaction costs and monetary instability, thus leading to greater economic efficiency and higher standards of living. Unfortunately, this new world of digital money is fiercely resisted by many government officials. The full benefits of digital money will not be realized unless people are left free to move their financial assets around the globe in a private fashion. You can purchase this book from CIPE for $22.50--this is a 10% discount off of the list price. Visit our electronic bookstore at http://www.cipe.org/bookstore and look in the CIPE Partners' Publications section or contact Amy Wormwood by email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or fax at (202) 721-9250. ============================================================================ THE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE 1155 15th Street NW; Washington DC 20005 telephone: 202 721-9200; fax: 202 721-9250; email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit CIPE's Web site: http://www.cipe.org ============================================================================ --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'