The speculator of financial markets: how financial innovation and supervision made the modern world
- Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023
- xi, 304 p.
- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions .
Table of content: Front Matter Pages i-xi Download chapter PDF Introduction Daniele D’Alvia Pages 1-19 The Speculator and Financial Innovations: An Old Portrait Daniele D’Alvia Pages 21-70 The Speculator and Financial Innovations: A New Portrait Daniele D’Alvia Pages 71-118 Uncertainty: The Necessary Unknowable Road to Speculation Daniele D’Alvia Pages 119-169 Economic Bubbles, Schemes, and Market Failures Daniele D’Alvia Pages 171-236 Short Selling: The Bears of the Market Daniele D’Alvia Pages 237-278 Conclusions Daniele D’Alvia Pages 279-300 Back Matter Pages 301-304 [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-47901-4]
The book illustrates financial markets from the point of view of their subjectivity, namely by analysing one of the most prominent figures among market operators: the speculator. Whereas many textbooks or monographs are strictly devoted to the analysis of financial law or history, this book tells a remarkable story based on markets’ boom-bust, expectations, banks’ fragilities, market sentiment, desires, and dreams. In light of this, D’Alvia provides unique financial knowledge and delivers a book that constitutes an outstanding introduction to the topic of the speculator through its historical account and its evolution till modern days. Academics, lawyers, financial regulators, and retail and qualified investors should save a space for it on their shelves. (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-47901-4)