Introduction: Promise of economic security. Economic risks in an advancing world. What the world might gave looked like since 1950
Hidden problem of economic risk
Why new technology creates risks
Forty thieves : the many kinds of economic risks
How science and technology create new opportunities in finance. New information technology applied to risk management
Science of psychology applied to risk management
Nature of invention in finance
Six ideas for a new financial order. Insurance for livelihoods and home values
Macro markets : trading the biggest risks
Income-linked loans : reducing the risks of hardship and bankruptcy
Inequality insurance : protecting the distribution of income
Intergenerational social security : sharing risks between young and old
International agreements for risk control
Deploying the new financial order. Global risk information databases
New units of measurement and electronic money
Making the ideas work : Research and advocacy
New financial order as a continuation of a historical process. Lessons from major financial inventions
Lessons from major social insurance inventions
Epilogue: Model of radical financial innovation.