Our modern monetary system has become too complex, a fragile process that depends on private banks creating debt in order to continue functioning. The Global Financial Crisis of 2008–2009 laid bare the myriad flaws of this approach and made it clear that such a system is unsustainable. In this book, Uli Kortsch, our own Patrick Barry, and others outline why our monetary system needs to be redesigned — as well as steps we can take to do it.