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.