Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
ISBN: 978-1-041-43054-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is an iteration of blockchain technology that has emerged as an area of keen interest because of its perceived potential to disintermediate financial activity and disrupt traditional banking infrastructure.
This book assembles diverse perspectives to critically examine DeFi’s structural characteristics, developmental trajectory, looming risks, and overarching constraints. It examines DeFi through a multidisciplinary exploration to assess the benefits and difficulties, as well as the viability and longevity, of DeFi as sociocultural, technological, and economic phenomenon, while offering estimates of future paths that DeFi might take in each domain. It provides concrete examples as case studies when weighing the competing narratives both positive and negative regarding DeFi. It strikes a balanced assessment of DeFi’s implications in the contemporary era, discussing both the optimistic claims as well as cautioning against the challenges that might emerge in its broader dissemination amongst the public, particularly from an accountability/oversight perspective. The book offers a balanced and theoretically grounded understanding of DeFi’s evolving role in reshaping global financial, technological, and institutional systems.
Deploying lenses from international political economy, financial regulation, political theory, institutional economics, cyber criminology, digital sociology, sociolinguistics, and economic philosophy, the book offers a systematic inquiry into both DeFi’s potential as well its pitfalls and will be relevant to scholars across economics, finance, law, philosophy, sociology, and science and technology studies.
Zielgruppe
Academic and Postgraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Informationstechnik, IT-Industrie
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Anlagen & Wertpapiere
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines
Weitere Infos & Material
Section 1: Explainers & Possibilities 1. Decoding DeFi: Market Dynamics and Risk Architecture 2. Anarchy, State, and DeFi 3. The fragmentation of global payment and settlement: De-risking, DLTs, and the bypassing of SWIFT Section 2: Risks & Regulation 4. DeFi as Regulatory Infrastructure: Privatized RegTech, Regulatory Reliance, and the Automation Boundary 5. Assessing the Differences in Bitcoin & Other Cryptocurrency Legality Across National Jurisdictions 6. Blockchain Security in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 7. Hash, Bash, Cash, Crash: The Threat Layer of Decentralised Finance Section 3: Critiques 8. Decentralizing Language, Centralizing Power: A Sociolinguistic Critique of DeFi 9. Capital as Power and Decentralized Finance: Reproducing Hierarchy 10. Protocol capitalism 11. Parasocial Monetization and Platform Extraction in Conventional Social Media and SocialFi Alternatives Section 4: Conclusion 12. Decentralized Finance: An Emergent Alternative Financial Architecture
