Credit and Creed: A Critical Legal Theory of Money

ISBN-13: 9781032239958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 274 str.

Andreas Rahmatian

Opis

This book presents a legal theory of money, based on the concept of dematerialised property. Providing a rigorous analysis of the most salient legal issues regarding money, this book will appeal to legal theorists, economists, and anyone working in commercial or banking law.

Spis treści

1. The Legal Concept of Money;  2. The Creation of Money and its Legal Basis;  3. Money as a Static Concept: Money in Economics;  4. A Dynamic Concept of Money. The Alienation Cycle;  5. The Legal Underpinnings for the Functioning of Money as Money: The Faith in Money and the Power of the Banks;  6. Conclusion;  7. Bibliography;  8. Index

O autorze

Andreas Rahmatian is Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Glasgow. His research interests are in intellectual property and commercial law, property theory, comparative law and legal theory, and intellectual history and the law.