Money, Markets, and Democracy Politically Skewed Financial Markets and How to Fix Them /

• Main Author: Bragues, George (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Capital market.; Political economy.; Democracy.; Economic policy.; Economics.; Economic Policy.; Capital Markets.; Political Economy.

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, n...

Table of Contents:

• 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.