This Article provides a comprehensive review of the crowdfunding phenomenon. It argues that equity crowdfunding (ECF) and, to a lesser extent, peer-to-peer lending (P2PL) offer the possibility of a global solution to the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) funding problem. In the United...

The paradigm example of globalization is the global integration of financial markets. Globalization has significant implications for New Zealand -- a small island nation far from the centers of world capital -- that flow from the particular characteristics of New Zealand's economy. In order to...

This edited collection critically engages with an important but rarely-asked question: what is energy for? This starting point foregrounds the diverse social processes implicated in the making of energy demand and how these change over time to shape the past patterns, present dynamics and future...