Digital wealth and algorithmic commerce: the emerging law of artificial intelligence, digital assets, virtual economies, and the future of wealth creation in Africa

Abstract

Every legal system is, beneath its technical surface, a theory about what is valuable and who is entitled to control it. To understand the law of digital wealth, it is therefore necessary to understand the law of wealth as such — to trace, briefly but seriously, how the object of economic and legal attention has moved across history, and what each shift demanded of the law that governed it.