End of Finance

Name: End of Finance
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ISBN: 9780745651118

ISBN-10: 0745651119

ISBN-13: 9780745651118

Edition: 2011

Authors: Massimo Amato, Luca Fantacci

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List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 10/14/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

MASSIMO AMATO is a Researcher in Economic History at the Universitagrave; Bocconi in Milan.#60;p#62;LUCA FANTACCI is Assistant Professor at the Universitagrave; Bocconi in Milan.#60;/p#62;



Introduction



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



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)



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?


Notes


Index