George Bragues

Money, Markets, and Democracy

Politically Skewed Financial Markets and How to Fix Them

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the ways that politics and financial markets impact one another. In this relationship, politics is the ultimate controlling force. The kinds and prices of financial instruments that get traded and the individuals and institutions that get to trade them, not to mention the rules under which everyone trades, are all matters decisively influenced by an array of political variables - sometimes for the better, but all too often for the worse. The fault for this political skewing of the markets chiefly lies with democracy. Through its commitment to equality and its inclination towards fiscal profligacy, democracy hinders the markets from acting as a greater force for social good. To fix this skewing of finance, democracy's troubling tendencies must be squarely faced and curbed by a return to its monetary roots. Democracy must reinstall gold at the monetary foundations of our financial markets.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-56939-4
• 1st ed. 2017
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 525g
• ISBN-13: 9781137569394
• ISBN-10: 1137569395
• Artikelnr.: 44769430

Autorenporträt

George Bragues is the Assistant Vice-Provost and Program Head of Business at the University of Guelph-Humber, Canada. His writings have spanned the disciplines of economics, politics, and philosophy. He has published op-ed pieces in Canada's Financial Post.  He has also published a wide variety of scholarly articles and reviews in journals such as The Journal of Business Ethics, Qualitative Research in Financial Markets, The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, The Independent Review, History of Philosophy Quarterly , Episteme, and Business Ethics Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Why the Markets Must Be Politically Investigated.- 1 Money Before Liberal Democracy.- 2 Money In Liberal Democracy.- 3 The Bond Market.- 4 The Stock Market.- 5 The Derivatives Markets.- 6 The Currency Markets.- Conclusion: The Fix Is Mostly About the Money.