As the real economy is increasingly digitalized, banking lags behind. It is thus not well placed to support the new economy. The book provides some perspective on the changes taking place, identifying the systemic weaknesses in the traditional financial infrastructure, and proposing some radical rethinking to address systemic financial instability.

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PETER CHALLEN is a Sloan Fellow at London Business School, UK BERNARD LIETAER is a Research Fellow at Centre for Sustainable Resources, Berkeley University, California, USA NICK POTTS is a Reader at Southampton Solent University, UK RODNEY SHAKESPEARE is a Visiting Professor at Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia

Inhalt
Introduction; C.Adams & S.Mouatt PART ONE: THEORY Monetary Monopoly as Structural Cause for Systemic Financial Instability?; B.Lietaer Marx's Big Idea; N.Potts When is a Financial Crisis not a Financial Crisis?; N.Potts The Dissolution of the Financial State; S.Mouatt The Corporate Subjugation of Money and Banking; S.Mouatt PART TWO: THE EVIDENCE The Emergence of Non-Banks: E-Commerce Driven Competition in the Financial Sector; C.Adams Changing Payment Systems; C.Adams Ascendant Corporate Monies: Electronic Money in an Electronic World; C.Adams Complementary Currencies at Work; B.Lietaer PART THREE: THE FUTURE Towards an Ecology of Complementary Currencies; B.Lietaer The State-Issue of Currency without Usury; P.Challen, S.Mouatt & R.Shakespeare The Future: Competition from the Technology Arena ; C.Adams A Complementary and Competitive Monetary System for the Future?; C.Adams & S.Mouatt