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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Part I Phenomenology
1 Do we know what the financial markets are?
2 At the root of the possibility of crisis: Liquidity and risk
3 What is credit?
4 What is money?
5 Finance starting from the end
6 Capitalism and debt: A matter of life and death
Part II History
1 From credit risk to liquidity risk (2008)
2 The globalization of capital (1973)
3 ‘Fiat dollar’. And the world saw that it was good (1971)
4 The Eurodollar chimera (1958)
5 The European Payments Union (1950)
6 Bretton Woods: The plan that might have made it (1944)
7 Bretton Woods: The system that found implementation (1944)
8 The standard crisis (1929)
9 Orchestra rehearsal. The international gold standard and the dissolution of gold (1871)
10 Money before and after the gold standard (1717)
11 Money for nothing: The invention of central banking (1694)
12 The international currency of the trade fairs (1579)
Part III Politics
1 Double or quits?
2 The way out of liquidity: The Gordian knot and utopia
3 Prevention or cure? The structural paradox of the anti-crisis policies
4 Another finance
5 The (rare) ‘green shoots’ of a possible reform
6 If not now, when?
Notes
Index
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