1. Introduction -- 2. European money and culture before 1914 -- 3. The 1920s: Lessons from Weimar -- 4. The Jazz Age: America in the 1920s -- 5. The money-haters: experiments in socialism -- 6. Europe between the world wars: a ferment of ideas -- 7. How Europe’s culture kept money under...

Introduction -- PART 1: THE PRESENT SCENE -- 1 Modern money - a matter of trust -- 2 Globalization without global money -- 3. The global menace of US monetary policies -- PART TWO: THE ESSENCE OF GOOD MONEY -- 4. What we mean by “good money” -- 5. Why good money has a solid anchor -- PART...

The world economy is caught in a money trap. Existing monetary arrangements meet the needs neither of the ageing societies of the West nor of younger emerging economies. This in-depth analysis explains how the world got into the grip of global finance - and how it can escape, with a growing...