| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Testimonials page -- Crowdfunding and the Democratization if Finance -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- ONE The Crisis of Finance -- The financial Leviathan -- Why 'democratic finance'? -- Models of democracy -- What does finance value? -- TWO What is Crowdfunding? -- Savings accounts (in banks, building societies or National Savings) -- Investments (capital at risk) -- eBay for money -- Crowdfunding: the basics -- Donation/rewards-based crowdfunding -- Debt security or loans-based crowdfunding |
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Equity-based crowdfunding -- Co-operatives and community benefit societies -- Crowdfunding around the world and back -- Crowdfunding as 'democratic finance' -- Democratizing finance? For whom, about what? -- THREE Democratic Finance, Then and Now -- Who controls your money? -- Guardians of the financial Republic -- Saving versus investing -- P2P finance, a 2,500-year-old new idea -- Digging for coins -- From Goschen loans to Community Municipal Investments -- FOUR The Destination of Money -- Flat, colourless and heartless -- It's relational work, stupid! -- The gift of money |
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Modern Monetary Theory, moonshots and missions to Mars -- FIVE Futures of Democratic Finance -- Challenging crowdfunding, within and without -- Understanding investment as a social act -- The enduring paradox of financial inclusion -- The taboo of investment -- Money, meaning and those magic money trees -- From wealth creation to wealth management: neoliberalism's 'real' legacy -- Beyond the crisis of finance: crowdfunding versus cryptocurrencies -- CONCLUSION The Change in Your Pocket -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
A unique collaboration between an academic and a practitioner, this book tells the story of money from ancient Athens to the Bitcoin revolution to explain how crowdfunding is the way for people to reclaim the power of their money in pursuit of a fairer and greener society |
| Subject |
Crowd funding.
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Money -- History
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Crowd funding
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Money
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Davis, Bruce (Financial manager), author.
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| ISBN |
1529216753 |
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9781529216752 |
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