Product Description
In a world of fading borders, the internet has become a regular method of buying and selling. However, technological and legal means of guaranteeing secure electronic transactions lag behind the increasing flexibility required by a flourishing `virtual’ economy. Furthermore, as virtual money circulates it is susceptible to interception, processing and channeling by any number of corporate interests and public authorities. The questions arise: Who is going to control… More >>
Posts Tagged ‘Money’
The New Virtual Money: Law and Practice
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011Store of Value: Money, Financial Capital, Fungibility, Unit of Account, Standard of Deferred Payment, Medium of Exchange, Gold Standard
Thursday, January 6th, 2011Product Description
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A recognized form of exchange can be a form of money or currency, a commodity like gold, or financial capital. To act as a store of value, these forms must be able to be saved and retrieved at a later time, and be predictably useful when retrieved. Storage of value is one of several distinct functions of money. The other functions are the standard of deferred payment, which requires acceptability to parties owed a debt, a… More >>
Financial capital: Financial capitalism, Finance capitalism, Bank, Capital market, Capitalism, Finance, Financialization, Financial commons, Five Capitals, Funding, Money supply
Thursday, September 30th, 2010Product Description
Financial capital can refer to money used by entrepreneurs and businesses to buy what they need to make their products or provide their services or to that sector of the economy based on its operation, i.e. retail, corporate, investment banking, etc… More >>


