Chapter 1.Introduction: Money, Finance, & Production in Contemporary Commercial Republics -- Chapter 2.Money, Capital, & Investment: Fixing Some Critical Terms & Relations -- Chapter 3.Franchise Finance: A Brief Exposition & Exposé -- Chapter 4.Franchise Finance: Why & How We Got Here --...

Climate scientists have determined that we must act now to prevent an irreversible and catastrophic climatic tipping point, beyond which neither our own nor many other species can be assumed likely to survive. On the way to that bleak ending, moreover, extreme socio-economic injustice and...