Regulating Blockchain - Critical Perspectives in Law and Technology

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

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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367669812
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66981-2
• No. of pages: 178
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; 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