Corporate and Social Transformation of Money and Banking

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Simon Mouatt, Carl Adams

      Pages 1-21

3. Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Monetary Monopoly as Structural Cause for Systemic Financial Instability?

      • Bernard Lietaer

      Pages 25-55

   3. Marx’s Big Idea

      • Nick Potts

      Pages 56-70

   4. When is a Financial Crisis not a Financial Crisis?

      • Nick Potts

      Pages 71-86

   5. The Dissolution of the Financial State

      • Simon Mouatt

      Pages 87-102

   6. The Corporate Subjugation of Money and Banking

      • Simon Mouatt

      Pages 103-117

4. The Evidence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. The Emergence of Non-Banks: E-Commerce Driven Competition in the Financial Sector

      • Carl Adams

      Pages 121-132

   3. Changing Payment Systems

      • Carl Adams

      Pages 133-147

   4. Ascendant Corporate Monies: Electronic Money in an Electronic World

      • Carl Adams

      Pages 148-159

   5. Complementary Currencies at Work

      • Bernard Lietaer

      Pages 160-178

5. The Future

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. Towards a Monetary Ecology

      • Bernard Lietaer

      Pages 181-204

   3. The State-Issue of Currency without Usury

      • Peter Challen, Simon Mouatt, Rodney Shakespeare

      Pages 205-218

   4. The Future: Competition from the Technology Arena

      • Carl Adams

      Pages 219-233

   5. A Complementary and Competitive Monetary System for the Future?

      • Carl Adams, Simon Mouatt

      Pages 234-237

6. Back Matter

   Pages 238-248

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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.

• banking
• money
• new economy

• Southampton Solent University, UK

  Simon Mouatt

• School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK

  Carl Adams

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

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