Regulating Blockchain - Critical Perspectives in Law and Technology

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Herian, Robert (Open University Herian
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781138592766
• ISBN: 978-1-138-59276-6
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; LAW / General, COMPUTERS / Internet / General, COMPUTERS / Web / General, LAW / International, LAW / Science & Technology, LAW / Communications, COMPUTERS / Networking / General, LAW / Media & the Law, LAW / Computer & Internet, Legal aspects of IT, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Company, commercial & competition law, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects, Company, commercial and competition law: general, IT and Communications law / Postal laws and regulations, IT & Communications law