This paper offers an outline of the institutional theory of forming and sustaining trust in monetary systems. To gain support for their trust in money, economic agents create hierarchically ordered structures of institutional insurance, which reflect the relative liquidity/enforceability of the...

The authors examine the causes and consequences of complexity among the broadly economic phenomena of firms, industries and socio-economic policy. The book makes a valuable contribution to the increasingly prominent subject of complexity, especially for those whose interests include...