Looking forward in the discussion

I am going to want to talk about

• money, as a social technology, coordination device, allocation and wealth, and its effect on social ties and relationships
  
• preferences and how people make mistakes in what they want for the future
  
• happiness, including recent research and whether it can be used as an intermediate aim that can gain wider acceptance
  
• more about cities and what makes them flourish, including Jane Jacob's views.
  
• ownership and property in the age of intangible investment. Who owns capital?
  

I think the answer I am groping towards is that money (and redistribution of money) is a social technology that is marvelous for solving material accumulation and loosening social barriers. But it has limits as a coordination device when the main things we want are not material or easily exchangeable.