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Crypto-politics and counterfeit democracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Leah Downey  and
Stefan Eich
Leah Downey
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, UK
Stefan Eich*
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, USA/Institute for Advanced Study, USA
*
Corresponding author: Stefan Eich, Institute forAdvanced Study, School of Social Science, 1 Einstein Drive, 08540 Princeton, NJ,USA. Email: stefan.eich@georgetown.edu.
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What began with an intense bout of crypto fever has since the onset of the pandemic engendered an explosive rise in online retail trading. While the original political promise of financial decentralization has become ever harder to sustain, the idea of democracy as access, including access to highly speculative and gamified investments, continues to capture the financial imagination.

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Forum: Edges of the financial imagination
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Finance and Society , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , 2023 , pp. 69 - 72
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