 Introduction: Money, Finance, and Production in Contemporary Commercial RepublicsRobert C. Hockett ()
Chapter Chapter 1 in The Citizens' Ledger, 2022, pp 1-18 from Springer Abstract: Abstract This chapter lays out in detail the consolidated public balance sheet—the “Citizens’ Ledger”—that Chapter 5 schematized in broad outline. On the liability side of the balance sheet, the Chapter shows, will be a universal digital public savings and payments platform—the essential commercial infrastructure first broached in the book’s Prologue. On the asset side, in turn, will be digital credit and other financial instruments associated with bona fide productive, not speculative, investment in projects thate grow real wealth for enterprising citizens and firms. Democratically accountable means of digitally assuring that only productive, as distinguished from merely speculative, investments receive public or publicly backed digital funding are developed from historical precedent— notably older forms of American and German banking, central banking, and public finance. New digital technologies, the chapter shows, offer us “new and improved” ways of doing what we used to do well, while avoiding the middleman-wrought harms that despoiled our earlier systems. Date: 2022 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-99566-9_1 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99566-9_1 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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