Contents

The book is organised in four parts.

When we comment on current developments, we will relate them to themes and arguments made in the book, and assess to what extent the diagnosis and policy recommendations should be modified as a result.

Please click on each part title below to read a full outline that is designed to help you to see where they fit in to the structure of the argument.

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Robert Skidelsky

A Note on Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Into the Danger Zone

2 Why Players Need a New Rulebook

3 How Monetary Systems Are Born

4 World Money without an Anchor

Part II Searching for Ways Out

5 Improving National Policies

6 A Solution for the Eurozone

7 Money International

Part III Four Key Issues

8 Those Global Imbalances

9 The Reserve Currency Overhang

10 Can Banks Be Made Safe?

11 Markets, States and Bubbles

Part IV The Power of Global Finance

12 Hundred Years of Currency Plans

13 The Choice of the Standard

14 The Leap to a New Monetary Order

15 The Emerging Global Financial System