This book aims to explore stability in an international financial system using disequilibrium theory‎.‎ It examines historical cases of both instability and stability and reviews price‎-disequilibrium theory to construct a theoretical model for a stable international financial system‎.‎ In the modern knowledge economy in a global world‎,‎ financial socio‎-technical systems still continue to be central to global commerce‎.‎ Moreover‎,‎ technological advances in computer and communications have changed both the knowledge economy and the financial system‎.‎ While globalization and technology have made international finance more powerful and important to knowledge economies‎,‎ they have also increased the volatility‎,‎ instability‎,‎ and fraudulent use of international finance‎.‎ The international world has not experienced a long‎-term‎,‎ stable financial system after 1913‎.‎ International financial systems have been periodically unstable‎,‎ triggering financial crises and resultant economic depressions in different nations‎.‎ Yet the global economy cannot develop properly without a stable international system‎,‎ which distributes wealth to economically productive activities‎.‎ How then can a stable and modern international‎-financial‎-system be constructed‎?‎ In this provocative volume‎,‎ the authors applies the cross‎-disciplinary analysis of societal dynamics to important economic writers to derive a new approach to the problem of stabilizing international financial systems‎.‎