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Financial Innovations and Monetary Reform

How to Get Out of the Debt Trap

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Written by two leading experts on multinational accounting and billion-dollar international investment funds, this book provides a framework for a global reform of the world monetary system, and defines a decidedly new approach to dealing with public debt mortgage, an issue that we can see in many countries in Europe and around the world. The authors put forward a proposal for transforming sterile financial masses, which are withdrawn from the real economy as they no longer bear interest, into wealth. To facilitate this return to the real economy, the authors propose that a significant share of public debt be converted into net equities in the world of business and goods production in order to find new profitable investment projects. The idea is bold, and the authors strive to demonstrate its technical feasibility. They are convinced that this approach can accompany and enhance a movement that has already begun, namely the implementation of vast national and international investment programs in major infrastructures and research projects in innovative sectors.

This work builds on the authors’ two previous books, which focus on the monetary system. The first, published in 2010 and including a foreword by former French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, analyzes the new virtual dimension of money. The second, published in 2014, puts forward an innovative proposal for a new financial regulation aimed at more stable economies. This third book is intended for professionals in the financial industry, including decision makers at banks, accounting and private equity firms, as well as policymakers at central banks and government institutions involved in the implementation of financial and monetary reforms.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter
1. Short History of Money from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
Abstract
Many economics textbooks have explained the slow transformation from a subsistence economy to a barter economy, thus limited by the comparability of the objects or services exchanged. Although an improvement over the subsistence economy, the barter economy remains cumbersome and inefficient, as it requires the simultaneous acceptance of a transaction by both parties with physical delivery.
Jean-François Serval, Jean-Pascal Tranié
2. The Evolution Toward Modern Money and the Path Toward Digital
Abstract
Exchanges are recognized by recording them in files, usually books called “accounting journals.” When the receivables and payables resulting from these exchanges appear on the financial statements, they are transformed by the fact that they become a balance in the books and thus are endowed with legal protection allowing them to be recovered or the obligation to pay them.
Jean-François Serval, Jean-Pascal Tranié
3. The Current Model, the Role of Central Banks
Abstract
To understand monetary policy, one needs to make a logical comparison between the details of transactions and their aggregation and classification into homogeneous aggregates. The first issues to be addressed are how to represent individual transactions and how to capture information about them.
Jean-François Serval, Jean-Pascal Tranié
4. The Monetary World and Its Analytical Tools
Abstract
To understand monetary policy, a logical comparison must be made between the details of transactions and their grouping and classification into homogeneous aggregates. The first issue to address is how to represent individual transactions and how to capture information about them.
Jean-François Serval, Jean-Pascal Tranié
5. The Monetary System, the Issues
Abstract
We have seen what money is and what markets are. Now we need to know how they combine to form a system. The system is defined by the relationships by which citizens and governments or their central banks organize the monetary compensation of their exchanges. They do this with the help of a unified measurement tool that aims to regulate the acceptance of money as a means of payment and the exchange ratio of the currency.
Jean-François Serval, Jean-Pascal Tranié
6. The Monetary Reform, Its Stakes and Its Modalities
Abstract
Money is used to value traded goods and services and to transpose these exchanges and the resulting assets into the financial statements of economic agents. It must be based on a measuring instrument with a standard that serves as an external reference. Money, a financial instrument, is necessarily linked to a standard.
Jean-François Serval, Jean-Pascal Tranié
7. The Reduction of Public Debt, the Heart of a Monetary Reform
Abstract
The only way to escape the current unhealthy situation in which risks and their remuneration are not balanced and in which the existence of zero or effectively negative rates (inflation higher than remuneration) represents a form of violation of the social contract in which all citizens participate, is to find the mechanism that will allow all particular interests to converge and to leave society the room for maneuver necessary to achieve fundamental objectives accepted by all. This means, in concrete terms, that it is imperative to reduce the debts owed in order to re-establish a system of capital remuneration with interest on bonds and dividends on shares, proportional to the market’s appreciation of the risk, without the intervention of the States to disturb the free will of the market. A massive reduction in the stock of public debt is necessary.
Jean-François Serval, Jean-Pascal Tranié
Backmatter
Metadaten
Titel
Financial Innovations and Monetary Reform
verfasst von
Jean-François Serval
Jean-Pascal Tranié
Copyright-Jahr
2023
Electronic ISBN
978-3-031-24189-5
Print ISBN
978-3-031-24188-8
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24189-5

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