... from 2004 Annual Report. Notes: Shares of total currency holdings by central banks. Function of money Governments Private actors Store of value International reserves Currency substitution (private dollarization) Medium of exchange Vehicle...

...This chapter presents an introduction to shared capitalism of the U.S. economy. Shared capitalism refers to a diverse set of compensation practices through which worker pay or wealth depends on the performance of the firm or work group. In the United States, one major form for employee ownership...

...This chapter focuses on the guild and livery company as corporate forms: on the place of guilds and livery companies within the “body politic” of the City of London, and the relation of guilds, companies, and City to the commercial institution of the theater and its share-holding system...

... Arnold Oliver Hobbes Thomas parliaments and Parliament civil society and civil life Middleton Thomas North Thomas incorporation James I England London representation Aristotle Cicero Machiavelli corporate ontology William Shakespeare acting parts shares personation Hamlet Titus...

...This chapter proposes a political ideology called fair shares. It explains that the fair shares ideology is a biologically grounded approach to social justice that enables definition of a middle ground between capitalism and socialism and the ideological standoff between them. This chapter also...

... income shares) feeds back on itself in a manner that is consistent with the idea of an inequality trap. The chapter then summarizes the remaining chapters of the book. inequality trap economic inequality trap feedback pathways self correcting feedback self reinforcing feedback political inequality...