Rethinking FinanceAlternative voices for a new financial architecture

“The pound of flesh which I demand of him is deerely bought, ’tis mine, and I will haue it.”  Shylock in the Merchant of Venice. Despite the relevance of its theme to much of my work, I am not in the habit of quoting Shakespeare’s anti-Semitic play of 1596, the Merchant of Venice.  But William Buiter’s column [...]