Reviews the role of the computer in the credit crunch, argues that trying to control the digital processes that manipulate money and like financial instruments is the wrong approach to overcoming problems in the financial world, and that rather the application of money itself needs to be controlled so that it retains a reasonably close relationship with real value
History
Publication title
Computer
Volume
42
Article number
1
Number
1
Pagination
90-92
ISSN
0018-9162
Publication status
Published
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