Meta-Commerce aims to identify and structure the critical questions underlying the long-term viability of the financial system.

Inspired by David Hilbert's 23 questions project of 1900, the Meta-Commerce programme brings together financial experts across a range of disciplines with a view to producing a framework of questions in order to prioritise future research and direct action.

By helping to identify a set of core questions that link economics, finance and society, and that need solving in order to have a working financial system, Meta-Commerce maps the road to Long Finance and contributes to its overarching goals - to expand frontiers, change systems, deliver services and build communities.

Related approaches:

• Harvard University - Solving the Social Sciences' Hard Problems
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Grand Challenges