Isbn: 9798295688836 - the monetary state - monetary statecraft & the architecture of financial power. (5 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Money fails first as a delay. A payment marked complete stays reversible. A clearing window extends. A margin call arrives early. A corridor tightens documentation and turns routine into exception. In that moment, the argument returns, and the hierarchy hidden in calm becomes visible as behavior. The Monetary State begins there. It treats money not as a symbol or a policy dial, but as a governed architecture of claims, ledgers, collateral, and finality that determines what counts as real when time becomes scarce. When the machine tightens, the economy does not merely slow. It reorders.Jag DeSaint writes for the people responsible for that reorder: finance ministers, central bank governors, sovereign advisers, regulators, bank chairmen, multilateral officials, and system architects. This is not a debate about ideology. It is a codex of gates. It shows payment as a sequence of states, why speed is not finality, and why crisis is governance made visible through queues, eligibility, haircuts, and priority. It restores the vocabulary polite discussion avoids: discharge, admissibility, convertibility, custody, netting, and the legal ranking that decides whose claims survive when value is insufficient.The book moves from first principles to the live frontier. It maps the credit engine that scales modern economies and the payment state that manufactures routine, then descends into the layers that make the system fast and fragile: collateral chains, repo funding, margin timing, and shadow liquidity that accelerates abundance in calm and seizes into forced deleveraging in stress. It explains how safe is manufactured through eligibility lists, how liquidity is rationed through time, and how a single operational hold can cascade into a funding event, then forced selling, then political anger. It treats the reserve order as geopolitical infrastructure, showing how terms are set through collateral ladders and corridor admissibility long before they are announced as politics.It follows cross border passage through veto points, where domestic legality can become useless when external recognition tightens. It shows how sanctions posture, compliance divergence, and private de risk decisions become shadow diplomacy, executed at machine speed through ordinary payment sequence. It brings multilateral finance into the same frame, not as charity, but as architecture: guarantees, conditionality, and development credit that either builds domestic capacity or deepens dependence, depending on how settlement access and enforceable cash flow are designed.From there the book confronts the splintering system. Parallel rails, diverging standards, concentration in critical nodes, and strategic exclusion are turning monetary order into a contest over legibility and completion. Translators become gatekeepers, and gatekeepers become markets in passage. Stable value claims and programmable rails relocate power into identity rules, custody chains, platform governance, and the definition of finality, where a small change in rule text can narrow ordinary commerce without anyone naming it policy.The Monetary State closes with an actionable doctrine and audit tools. It enables you to identify where finality lives, where convertibility can fail, where collateral mobility will freeze, which nodes have become sovereign adjacent through concentration, and how to design triage before triage becomes scandal. An authoritative codex of monetary statecraft and the architecture of financial power, written for rooms where time is scarce and the stakes are national. An authoritative codex of monetary statecraft exposing the hidden machinery of money. Finality, collateral, corridors, and crisis rule decide terms as the next regime forms. This item is printed on dem Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Money fails first as a delay. A payment marked complete stays reversible. A clearing window extends. A margin call arrives early. A corridor tightens documentation and turns routine into exception. In that moment, the argument returns, and the hierarchy hidden in calm becomes visible as behavior. The Monetary State begins there. It treats money not as a symbol or a policy dial, but as a governed architecture of claims, ledgers, collateral, and finality that determines what counts as real when time becomes scarce. When the machine tightens, the economy does not merely slow. It reorders.Jag DeSaint writes for the people responsible for that reorder: finance ministers, central bank governors, sovereign advisers, regulators, bank chairmen, multilateral officials, and system architects. This is not a debate about ideology. It is a codex of gates. It shows payment as a sequence of states, why speed is not finality, and why crisis is governance made visible through queues, eligibility, haircuts, and priority. It restores the vocabulary polite discussion avoids: discharge, admissibility, convertibility, custody, netting, and the legal ranking that decides whose claims survive when value is insufficient.The book moves from first principles to the live frontier. It maps the credit engine that scales modern economies and the payment state that manufactures routine, then descends into the layers that make the system fast and fragile: collateral chains, repo funding, margin timing, and shadow liquidity that accelerates abundance in calm and seizes into forced deleveraging in stress. It explains how safe is manufactured through eligibility lists, how liquidity is rationed through time, and how a single operational hold can cascade into a funding event, then forced selling, then political anger. It treats the reserve order as geopolitical infrastructure, showing how terms are set through collateral ladders and corridor admissibility long before they are announced as politics.It follows cross border passage through veto points, where domestic legality can become useless when external recognition tightens. It shows how sanctions posture, compliance divergence, and private de risk decisions become shadow diplomacy, executed at machine speed through ordinary payment sequence. It brings multilateral finance into the same frame, not as charity, but as architecture: guarantees, conditionality, and development credit that either builds domestic capacity or deepens dependence, depending on how settlement access and enforceable cash flow are designed.From there the book confronts the splintering system. Parallel rails, diverging standards, concentration in critical nodes, and strategic exclusion are turning monetary order into a contest over legibility and completion. Translators become gatekeepers, and gatekeepers become markets in passage. Stable value claims and programmable rails relocate power into identity rules, custody chains, platform governance, and the definition of finality, where a small change in rule text can narrow ordinary commerce without anyone naming it policy.The Monetary State closes with an actionable doctrine and audit tools. It enables you to identify where finality lives, where convertibility can fail, where collateral mobility will freeze, which nodes have become sovereign adjacent through concentration, and how to design triage before triage becomes scandal. An authoritative codex of monetary statecraft and the architecture of financial power, written for rooms where time is scarce and the stakes are national.…