This short paper by Dr Shann Turnbull makes the case for a radical rethink of the way in which financial services could be regulated. Currently regulators are pursuing a "Red Queen" approach to regulation and running ever faster to stay in the same place. Complexity can only be controlled with...

This book introduces three techniques for democratising the wealth of nations. The three techniques: Ownership Transfer Corporations (OTCs), Cooperative Land Banks (CLBs) and Producer-Consumer Cooperatives (PCCs), like Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOPs), transfer wealth without taxes or...

The research question is to investigate if supplementary tethered currencies might reduce financial system risks and provide a superior fallback position to Bitcoin in a crisis? To investigate the question, a hypothetical $Z supplementary cost carrying currency is considered whose value is...

The article explains the crucial role of the dual paradoxical contrary ~ complementary properties of tensegrity. It is a neglected phenomenon in understanding how living things and their social organisations become self-regulating, self-managing and self-governing. Tensegrity is identified as a...

The motivation for this paper arose from BlackRock, the biggest investor in the world, wanting, “A new model for corporate governance” and that “companies must benefit all their stakeholders”. The idea of firms delivering value to all stakeholders was reinforced in 2019 by 180 other CEOs...

This paper considers criteria for regulators to accept non-official currencies that could make a contribution in reducing systemic risks and costs. Cell phone technology has made practical the re-introduction of negative interest rate/cost carrying money widely introduced privately in Europe and...

The US Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report stated: “dramatic failures of corporate governance and risk management at many systemically important financial institutions were a key cause of this crisis.” The Lehman Brothers liquidator's report and other sources explain the systemic...

A revised edition of a classic work long out of print, this book is based on the Schumacher Society Seminars on Community Economic Transformation. It presents the underlying ideas and essential institutions for building sustainable communities. The three Major sections of the book deal with...

This paper compares the competitive advantages of stakeholder mutual firms with firms that are publicly traded, family or government owned. A stakeholder mutual is owned and by its employees, customers and suppliers. These strategic stakeholders can have greater knowledge and commitment to the...

A cybernetic perspective is used to evaluate firms with or without stakeholder participation in their information and control architecture. This approach also provides a basis for evaluating firms with more than one board or control center as found in Japan, Europe, and labor-managed firms....