Biagio Bossone is financial advisor to international organizations (AfDB, BIS, IMF, IOSCO, World Bank) and economic advisor to governments and financial institutions in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He served as executive director, World Bank, member of the Executive board of the IMF, head of the public investment evaluation unit at Italy's Presidency of the Council of Ministers, general accountant and director general of the budget, government of the Sicilian region. A fomer banker and central banker, he has participated in G10 and European central banking working groups and task forces. He has served as expert to the High-Level Commission on World Bank Reform. He has been professore of inernational finance at the University of Palermo and University of Salento, Italy. He has (co)authoreds everal studies on economics, banking and finance.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. On Money.- Chapter 2. What is Money: Debt or Equity?.- Chapter 3. The Utility of Money.- Chapter 4. Money in a Sequence Economy.- Chapter 5. Money Creation by Banks.- Chapter 6. Money, Banks and Seigniorage.- Chapter 7. Money Quanta.- Part II. On "Sound" Money.- Chapter 8. Preventing Banks from Creating Money.- Chapter 9. Superstable Money (I): Separating Bank Money Creation from Lending.- Chapter 10. Superstable Money (II): Separating Money Creation from Banks.- Part III. On Money Effectiveness.- Chapter 11. On Money Effectiveness: Beyond the Lucas Critique.- Chapter 12. Money and Secular Stagnation.- Chapter 13. The Portfolio Theory of Inflation And Money (In)Effectiveness.- Chapter 14. Indifference Between State Money and Public Debt.- Chapter 15. The Fatal Flaws of Modern Money Theory.- Chapter 16. Fiscal Money.