Crowdfunding and the Democratization of Finance
Mark Davis and Bruce Davis
Abstract
Do you know where your money is? More importantly, do you know what your money is doing? Most of us feel confident that we know what money is. But few of us feel confident in taking responsibility for what our money does. We hand over the power of money to banks and mainstream finance with real, often damaging consequences for people and planet. 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 ... More
Do you know where your money is? More importantly, do you know what your money is doing? Most of us feel confident that we know what money is. But few of us feel confident in taking responsibility for what our money does. We hand over the power of money to banks and mainstream finance with real, often damaging consequences for people and planet. 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.
Keywords:
Crowdfunding,
Democracy,
Finance,
Green Economy,
Money,
Power,
Trust
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2021 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781529216738 |
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: May 2022 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781529216738.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Mark Davis, author
University of Leeds
Bruce Davis, author
Abundance Investment
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