1. Economic risks in an advancing world

•          What the world might have looked like since 1950
•          The hidden problem of economic risk
•          Why new technology creates risks
•          Forty thieves: the many kinds of economic risks

2. How science and technology create new opportunities in finance

•           New information technology applied to risk management
•           The science of psychology applied to risk management
•           The nature of invention in finance        

3. 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
•           Intergeneration social security: sharing risks between young and old
•           International agreements for risk control

4. Deploying the new financial order

•           Global risk information databases
•           New units of measurement and electronic money
•           Making the ideas work: research and advocacy

5. The new financial order as a continuation of a historical process

•           Lessons from major financial inventions
•           Lessons from major social insurance inventions
•           A model of radical financial innovation