The Market - The Machinery of Capital (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Not Avail, 2026
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Paperback. Markets are usually explained with stories about fear and greed, boom and bust. Those stories are not false, but they are not the machine. The machine is rule, record, proof, and timing: who sees first, who settles first, whose mark becomes official, and whose uncertainty is priced as a permanent penalty. The market does not only price assets. It prices time.This book traces the market system from its historical foundations to its present architecture, showing how reputational credit became tradable promises, how quotation and publication became authority, and how exchanges hardened into infrastructure through registries, brokers, clearing, custody chains, and official marks. Today, markets appear faster and more transparent than ever, yet truth is segmented into tiers, settlement is more conditional than most admit, and "innovation" often means a new choke point.The analysis is mechanism-led. You will see how calendars become forced flow, how passive turns into predictable urgency, how eligibility and haircuts operate like an internal policy layer, and how disputes and correction latency become hidden taxes that shape winners long before the headline price explains itself.Then the book moves from diagnosis to design. It introduces Market Instruments Money Theory, a practical framework for the next era: using stocks, bonds, and listed products to extinguish obligations without turning everyday life into speculation. The core is money-grade closure-stable spend unit, legal finality, safe harbor, funded restitution, admissible proof, governed marks, stress rules, and cross-border corridors built to prevent exit arbitrage.Written for traders, regulators, exchange leaders, bankers, policymakers, and builders of domestic market depth, this is a history of how the system was built, a present-tense map of how it runs, and a blueprint for what must be true for the new era to begin. A mechanism-driven history of how markets were built, how they run today, and a practical blueprint for the next era of the exchange system. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- The Market - The Machinery of Capital (Paperback)
- Author
- Jag Desaint
- Publisher
- Not Avail
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798295665851
Markets are usually explained with stories about fear and greed, boom and bust. Those stories are not false, but they are not the machine. The machine is rule, record, proof, and timing: who sees first, who settles first, whose mark becomes official, and whose uncertainty is priced as a permanent penalty. The market does not only price assets. It prices time.
This book traces the market system from its historical foundations to its present architecture, showing how reputational credit became tradable promises, how quotation and publication became authority, and how exchanges hardened into infrastructure through registries, brokers, clearing, custody chains, and official marks. Today, markets appear faster and more transparent than ever, yet truth is segmented into tiers, settlement is more conditional than most admit, and "innovation" often means a new choke point.
The analysis is mechanism-led. You will see how calendars become forced flow, how passive turns into predictable urgency, how eligibility and haircuts operate like an internal policy layer, and how disputes and correction latency become hidden taxes that shape winners long before the headline price explains itself.
Then the book moves from diagnosis to design. It introduces Market Instruments Money Theory, a practical framework for the next era: using stocks, bonds, and listed products to extinguish obligations without turning everyday life into speculation. The core is money-grade closure-stable spend unit, legal finality, safe harbor, funded restitution, admissible proof, governed marks, stress rules, and cross-border corridors built to prevent exit arbitrage.
Written for traders, regulators, exchange leaders, bankers, policymakers, and builders of domestic market depth, this is a history of how the system was built, a present-tense map of how it runs, and a blueprint for what must be true for the new era to begin.
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