The citizens' ledger : digitizing our money, democratizing our finance /: digitizing our money, democratizing our finance. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert C. Hockett.
• Authors: Hockett, Robert
• Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: Money, Finance, & Production in Contemporary Commercial Republics A. Money & Production, Public & Private: The Two-by-Two Matrix of Commercial Republican Economies B. Ills of Financial Hybridity—& Their Possible Money-Tech Cure C. Digitized Citizen Ledger Finance as Our Newly Available Cure Chapter 2: Money, Capital, & Investment: Fixing Some Critical Terms & Relations A. Capital: A Crucial Yet Oft-Muddled Term 1.Production: What Capital is (Ultimately) For 2.Generic Capital 3.Generic Capital in Production—Investment Capital B. Investment: Antonym & Antidote to Speculation 1.Investment & Finance 2.Stratification & N-ary (a.k.a.'Meta-') Markets 3.Intermediation, Derivation, 'Financialization' C. Money: From Measure to Medium—and Back 1.Paying—Including Investing 2.Accounting 3.Crediting / Debiting Chapter 3: Franchise Finance: A Brief Exposition & Exposé A. Hybridity In the Large: Exposition B. Hybridity in Detail: Exposé 1.Credit-Money's Endogeneity: Private Lending of Public Capital 2.Endogeneity's Blessing—and Curse: Production & Wealth, Speculation & Recursive Collective Action Problems Chapter 4. Franchise Finance: Why & How We Got Here A. Why Credit and Currency 1.Credit: Production & Payment in Time 2.Currency: From Ledgers to Tokens—and Back B. Why Uniformity 1.Spatial Uniformity: Payments & 'Universal Equivalents' 2.Temporal Uniformity: 'Sound Money' & 'Elastic Currency' Chapter 5. Franchise Finance: Why We Retain It— & Why We Need Not 52 A. Why We Retain It: New Facts, Old Ideas B. Why We Need Not: New Facts, New Prospects C. Ending Hybridity—Citizen Ledger Finance in Broad Outline Chapter 6. Digitized Citizen Ledger Finance: What We Now Can & Must Do A. Liability-Side Reform: Reserve Accounts, Citizen Wallets, & Resident Wallets 1.What the U.S. & Others Do Now: Reserve Accounts 2.What We Must Add: Digital Citizen Wallets, Resident Wallets, & Their Common Digital Ledger B. Asset Side Reform: Digitized CB, NIC, PSF, & Other Public Issuances 1.What We Do Now: Finance Ministry Debt, Agency Debt, & (Sometimes) Other 2.What We Must Add: Digitized CB-Discounted Paper, NIC Issuances, PSF Holdings, & Other C. Systemic Ramifications: Private Sector Transformation, Public Sector Consolidation 1.Private Money Capital: From Credit-Generation & -Multiplication to Honest Intermediation 2.Public Investment Capital: From Central Bank & Finance Ministry, Fiscal & Monetary, and 'T-Bill, ' 'Fed Note' & 'Mint Coin' Separation to Digital Consolidation Chapter 7. Digitized Citizen Ledger Finance: Logistics & Technics A. From Abstract Accounting to Concrete Logistics: Making It Happen Now B. From Macro Logistics to Micro Technics: Why to Digitize Now 1.The Bright Side of the Ledger 2.The Dark Side of the Ledger Chapter 8. From Digitized Citizen Ledger Finance to Citizen Fintech: Democratic Digitization & Its Possible Forms A. Moneys and Payment Systems B. From Payments to Moneys: Technical Options for the Democratic Digital Currency Chapter 9. Digitized Citizen Ledger Finance: Cavils & Competitors.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 332.0285; Financial institutions -- Effect of technological innovations on; Digital currency; Democracy -- Economic aspects; Finance -- Political aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030995669
• Related ISBNs: 9783030995652
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