Rethinking FinanceAlternative voices for a new financial architecture

Recently citizens and civil society organizations all over Europe have been stepping up the push for the introduction of a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT). The large support for the FTT is due to its triple benefit: it has huge potential as a new source of revenue for public budgets, it would contribute to the stabilisation of financial markets, and it would be an invaluable tool for the tax justice movement ─ all of which is badly needed in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.