Public Banks
Decarbonisation, Definancialisation and Democratisation
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 11 May 2023
- ISBN 9781108984515
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 228x152x19 mm
- Weight 510 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 b/w illus. 19 tables 582
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Public banks are dynamic, contested institutions with the potential to decarbonize the environment, definancialise the economy, and democratise global development.
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Public banks are banks located within the public sphere of a state. They are pervasive, with more than 900 institutions worldwide, and powerful, with tens of trillions in assets. Public banks are neither essentially good nor bad. Rather, they are dynamic institutions, made and remade by contentious social forces. As the first single-authored book on public banks, this timely intervention examines how these institutions can confront the crisis of climate finance and catalyse a green and just transition. The author explores six case studies across the globe, demonstrating that public banks have acquired the representative structures, financial capacity, institutional knowledge, collaborative networks, and geographical reach to tackle decarbonisation, definancialisation, and democratisation. These institutions are not without contradictions, torn as they are between contending public and private interests in class-divided society. Ultimately, social forces and struggles shape how and if public banks serve the public good.
'The Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 and the near financial meltdown at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have made it vividly clear that our current financial system is woefully inadequate to address the massive problems we face. Thomas Marois has written a masterful book that convincingly argues that a major expansion in the role of public banks can provide long term, well-directed finance to speak to these major challenges. This is the definitive work on public banking that will be of enormous interest to practitioners, policy makers, economists, and others who are tired of just complaining about the failures of finance and who actually want to do something about it.' Gerald Epstein, Professor and Co-Director PERI, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Table of Contents:
Introducing Public Banks; 1. The World of Public Banks; 2. Contrasting Evidence, Contending Views: Towards a Dynamic Alternative; 3. Credible Legacies, Neoliberal Transition; 4. Decarbonisation; 5. Definancialisation; 6. Democratisation; 7. A Democratised Public Bank for a Green and Just Transition: A Proposal; 8. Epilogue Public Banks in a Time of COVID-19; Bibliography; Index.
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