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Index
Author’s Preface
Foreword By Hazel Henderson
Introduction From Austerity to Prosperity
Section I. BANKING FROM WALL STREET TO BEIJING: WHY WE NEED SOMETHING NEW
From Bail-Outs to Bail-Ins: A Banking Dinosaur On Life Support
Exposed: A Corrupt and Dysfunctional Banking System
Public Sector Banks: From Black Sheep to Global Leaders
The BRICS as a Global Power: Brazil and Russia
India: Banking for the “Aam Admi” (Common Man)
The Secret of China’s Robust Economy: The Government Owns the Banks Rather than the Reverse
Section II. PUBLIC BANKING THROUGH HISTORY: 3,000 B.C. to 1913 A.D.
Public Banking in Antiquity: the Forgotten History
Medieval Italian Bankers Discover the Alchemy of Double-Entry Bookkeeping
Credit Innovations in England: From Government Tallies to Fractional Reserve Lending
How the Quakers’ Model Public Bank Brought Prosperity to Pennsylvania
Hamilton and the First U.s. Bank: Funding the Economy on Credit
The Second U.S. Bank, the National Bank Act, and the State Banking System
From the Populist Movement to the Federal Reserve
Section III. PUBLIC BANKING MODELS SPAWNED by DEPRESSION and WAR
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation: The Little-Known Public Financial Institution That Reversed the Depression and Funded World War II
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia: Turning the Credit of the Nation Into Money
The Bankers’ Coup: The Bank of England Passes the Baton to the Bank for International Settlements
The Canadian Movement for Monetary Sovereignty: Rise and Fall
The Alberta Experiment With Social Credit
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand and Kiwibank
Japan and Germany Break the Shackles of Interest – and Pay the Price
Japan Post Bank and the “Second Budget”: Turning the People’s Savings into Public Revenue
Section IV. PUBLIC BANKING MODELS, HYBRIDS AND RIVALS AFTER WORLD WAR II
Beyond Capitalism and Socialism: The Japanese State-Guided Model and the “Asian Tigers”
Public Banking In Germany: an Overlooked Key to Its Economic Strength
Euroland and the ECB: A Banking Model That Failed
Latin America: Breaking the Taboos of the Neoliberal Agenda
Argentina: The Wages of Defying the IMF and Agro-Elite
Libya and the “Rogue” States: A Clash of Banking Ideologies?
The Tower of Basel: Another Look at the Apex of the System
The Ultimate Affront: Bail-Ins, Derivatives and Forced Austerity
Section V SOLUTIONS: BANKING AS A PUBLIC UTILITY
Fixes For a Broken System: The Money Reformers Debate
State SolutIons: THE Model of the Bank of North Dakota
The State Bank Movement: Guidelines and FAQs
Local Solutions: City-Owned Banks, County-Owned Banks, Land Banks and Eminent Domain
Federal Solutions: Postal Banks, Development Banks, Public Central Banks, and Nationalization
Quantitative Easing for the People
Toward A New Theory Of Money And Credit
Glossary
Notes
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