This Open Access book from the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy
explains how money creation and banking works, describes the main problems of the …

This dissertation examines the evolution of UK life insurance arrangements by investigating
how the ways in which life insurers evaluate the economic worth of insurance contracts have …

Though macro-prudential policy is usually aimed at mitigating financial instability, in the
European Union it mainly consisted of a discretionary use of old policy tools, such as micro …

This book is a translation and adaption of the Dutch report 'Geld en schuld. De publieke rol
van banken', published by the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) …

This chapter assesses the financial monetary system on the basis of four characteristics:(1)
its economic contribution;(2) its stability;(3) its fairness in the distribution of benefits, costs …

In this book we identify two key challenges: we need a more balanced and controlled growth
of money and debt as well as a better balance between public and private interests. This …

This chapter considers the advantages and disadvantages of the sovereign money system. It
is structured following the four goals of any well-functioning financial monetary system that …