Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Promise of economic security. Economic risks in an advancing world. What the world might gave looked like since 1950 ; Hidden problem of economic risk ; Why new technology creates risks ; Forty thieves : the many kinds of economic risks
  • How science and technology create new opportunities in finance. New information technology applied to risk management ; Science of psychology applied to risk management ; Nature of invention in finance
  • Six ideas for a new financial order. Insurance for livelihoods and home values ; Macro markets : trading the biggest risks ; Income-linked loans : reducing the risks of hardship and bankruptcy ; Inequality insurance: protecting the distribution of income ; Intergenerational social security : sharing risks between young and old ; International agreements for risk control
  • Deploying the new financial order. Global risk information databases ; New units of measurement and electronic money ; Making the ideas work: Research and advocacy
  • The new financial order as a continuation of a historical process. Lessons from major financial inventions ; Lessons from major social insurance inventions ; Epilogue: Model of radical financial innovation.