Money The New Rules of the Game

Preface: Money and Democracy an Overdue Wedding.- Introduction: A Coercitive and Intransparent Financial System.- Part I: The Process towards a New Monetary Order.- 1. Tamer Wanted: Who will Restrain the Global Monetary and Finance System?.- 2. Rewriting the Rules of the Game: The Democratic Monetary Convention.- 3. The Basis: Money as a Public Good.- Part II: The Content - Cornerstones of a Democratic Monetary System.- 1. Who Creates Money?.- 2. Sovereign Money Reform.- 3. Democratic Central Bank.- 4. Solving the Problem of Sovereign Debt.- 5. Bank Lending Regulations.- 6. Common Good Oriented Banks.- 7. EU and Global Financial Supervision.- 8. Derivatives Close the Casino.- 9. Secure Pensions.- 10. Global Tax Cooperation.- 11. Income and Ownership Caps - Negative Feedback.- 12. Currencies Time for a Bretton Woods II.- Epilog I: Planned Economy in Peking und Zrich.- Epilog II: End of the Dollar Hegemony?.- Epilog III: Local and regional complementary currencies.- Part III: Kick Off.- 1. The Path to the First Convention.- 2. Questionnaire for the Convention.- Acknowledgements.- Index.