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The Iron Law of Financial Markets: Self-fulfilling Prophecies and Speculative Booms and Busts
This paper discusses the factors which, in the absence of strong financial regulation, sustain the Iron Law of the Financial Markets asserting that speculative booms and busts occur more or less regularly from 17 century to the present.
Ognjen Radonjić
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This research focuses on plunder from variuos co-operative or state institutions (mostly those which had belonged to the Ministry of Internal Trading or the Unity of Co-operatives of Lithuanian SSR) in the first post-war years (1945–1947) in the ...
Darius Indrišionis
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Speculation, history, speculative history [PDF]
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.1Speculations, conjectures, suppositions, opinions – we encounter them all in history and everyday life.
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On Imaginative Criminology and Its Significance
In growing numbers criminologists are discovering the value of imaginative and creative approaches for enquiry. There is now a critical mass of criminological work that engages substantively and theoretically with cultural artefacts such as film, fiction,
Jon Frauley
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Speculating on Speculative Execution [PDF]
Threat actors continue to design exploits that specifically target physical weaknesses in processor hardware rather than more traditional software vulnerabilities. The now infamous attacks, Spector and Meltdown, ushered in a new era of hardware-based security vulnerabilities that have caused some experts to question whether the potential cybersecurity ...
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What Motivates Speculators to Speculate? [PDF]
Land speculation that occurs on the urban border can be very problematic to the healthy development of cities—critical to economic growth. Speculative land investors, concerned with profits from trading in landed property, can especially affect developing countries where regulation is often poorly controlled and overly bureaucratic.
Bedane S. Gemeda +4 more
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Macroeconomic Conditions, Speculation, and Commodity Futures Returns
This paper examines the dynamic relationships between speculative activities, commodity returns, and macroeconomic conditions across five sectors compassing 29 commodities.
Ramesh Adhikari, Kyle J. Putnam
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Money as Medium, Speculation and Scrypt
Although they intervened on a culture of financialization in two very different ways, both Speculation and scrypt explore the intersection of money with the history of media, imperialism, colonialism, and computation. If capitalism is a kind of computer,
Stephanie Boluk
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Financialization in the food system
There is growing concern about financialization in the food sector, which refers to the increasingly important role played by financial actors, markets, and motives in decisions along agrifood supply chains. Financial actors have long been intertwined in
Jennifer Clapp +2 more
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Globalization of financial markets led to the enormous growth of volume and diversification of financial transactions. Financial derivatives were the basic elements of this growth.
Stankovska Aleksandra
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