Regulating Blockchain: Critical Perspectives in Law and Technology

Name: Regulating Blockchain: Critical Perspectives in Law and Technology
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9781138592766
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Author: Robert Herian
ISBN: 9781138592766

By Robert Herian

Routledge November 2018

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ISBN-13: 9781138592766
Publisher: Routledge
Publication: November 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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 prevention, to a wholesale decentralization of power and the banishing of the exploitative practices of "middlemen", blockchain stakeholders are nothing short of evangelical in their belief that it is a force for good. For these reasons and more the technology has captured the attention of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, global corporations and governments the world over.

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