Beyond scandal? Blockchain technologies and the fragile legitimacy of post-2008 finance

How do applications of emergent technologies contribute to the social legitimacy of finance? To address this question, we examine a set of technologies that have received increasing industry, media, and scholarly attention over the past decade: blockchains. Harnessing the concepts of ‘moral economy’...

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Published in:	Finance and Society
Main Authors:	Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, Moritz Hütten
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2019-01-01
Subjects:	Blockchain cryptocurrency digital money technology legitimacy scandal
Online Access:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2059599900000777/type/journal_article

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