Regulating Blockchain: Critical Perspectives in Law and Technology

ISBN-13: 9780367669812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 178 str.

Robert Herian

Opis

As the distributed architecture underpinning the Bitcoin anarcho-capitalist project, blockchain entered the imagination and the vocabulary of many people only recently. But as a largely unregulated phenomenon, it is set to impact the lives of billions of people in ways that may not benefit all, but instead simply line the pockets of a few elites

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.