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Regulating Blockchain: Critical Perspectives in Law and Technology book cover

1st Edition

Regulating Blockchain Critical Perspectives in Law and Technology

By Robert Herian Copyright 2019
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge
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As the distributed architecture underpinning the initial Bitcoin anarcho-capitalist, libertarian project, 'blockchain' entered wider public imagination and vocabulary only very recently. Yet in a short space of time it has become more mainstream and synonymous with a spectacular variety of commercial and civic 'problem'/'solution' concepts and ideals. From commodity provenance, to electoral fraud... Read more

Introduction



Part I   Regulating blockchain



1 Blockchain



Interlude I: Supplementing the memory economic: … Wampum, memex, transcopyright, blockchain …



2 A regulatory conundrum



3 Regulatory tradition



4 Blockchain the regulator



Interlude II: Regulatory technology: Louis-Sebastien Mercier’s tax trunk



PART II   Critical perspectives



5 Setting the scene



Interlude III: Anarchic technologies for anarchic economies: the ‘yellow trade’ of the Yorkshire coiners



6 Blockchain as an ethics of neoliberal political economy



7 The psycho-politics of blockchain



Interlude IV: A dangerous lack of law: man with machine in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano



8 Critical regulation



Index

Biography

Robert Herian is based in the Law School at The Open University. His teaching and research focus on private law, psychoanalysis, social, economic and political philosophy, and cultural theory.

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