The end of finance / Massimo Amato and Luca Fantacci.

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Edition:English ed.
Published: Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, c2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Phenomenology. Do we know what the financial markets are?
  • At the root of the possibility of crisis : liquidity and risk
  • What is credit?
  • What is money?
  • Finance starting from the end
  • Capitalism and debt : a matter of life and death
  • Part 2: History. From credit risk to liquidity risk (2008)
  • The globalization of capital (1973)
  • 'Fiat dollar'. And the world saw that it was good (1971)
  • The Eurodollar chimera (1958)
  • The European Payments Union (1950)
  • Bretton Woods : the plan that might have made it (1944)
  • Bretton Woods : the system that found implementation (1944)
  • The standard crisis (1929)
  • Orchestra rehearsal : the international gold standard and the dissolution of gold (1871)
  • Money before and after the gold standard (1717)
  • Money for nothing : the invention of central banking (1694)
  • The international currency of the trade fairs (1579)
  • Part 3: Politics. Double or quits?
  • The way out of liquidity : the Gordian knot and utopia
  • Prevention or cure? The structural paradox of the anti-crisis policies
  • Another finance
  • The (rare) "green shoots" of a possible reform
  • If not now, when?