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A New Perspective on Money Chapter 6: New Money for a New World.
Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity by Bernard A. Lietaer
Learn more about Amazon Prime. Although we often forget, money is just a social construct. However, my feeling is that it does not quite live up to its promise.
Personally, I’m tired of being programmed. Jan 31, Susan rated it liked it. Please try again later. Hardcoverpages. I’m glad I read it, but I still need a lot more information on the topic!
Unfortunately, after perfectly describing the vision and contours of the mountain peaks to be climbed The changes came about not through the redistribution of wealth, increased taxation, enlightened corporate self-interest, or government handouts but by people simply rethinking the concept of money and acting from this new perspective.
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Rethinking Money | Currency Solutions for a Wiser World
Interests Hidden Consequences Chapter 4: The reader needs to be both disciplined and determined to get from the start to the finish of the book. The monetary ecosystem proposed in Rethinking Money makes it possible and provides long-awaited solutions to the crises we face such as climate change, worldwide violence, and the chasm between rich and poor.
Lietaer and Dunne describe the many thousands of innovative currencies in use by communities worldwide and how these currencies are facilitating the needed transition of human societies to more peaceful, sharing, prosperous and sustainable futures.
Productive capital is that which is used to purchase productive assets, from which further productive capital is generated. If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Their book opened my eyes to possibilities with time banking that none of the previous presentations I’d seen on the concept over the past three years were able to convey.
I ordered two more copies. The new understanding this book offers is critical because economics vernard become the dominant—and increasingly only—discipline with which important decisions are being made.
Nick Van rated it really liked it Apr 26, Solutions are already in place throughout the world where terrible problems once existed.
Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers. Hats off to the authors, I enjoyed learning about communities issuing their own currency. This book is tackling a very important subject, and it starts and finishes admirably. Set up a giveaway.
Feb 15, Ron rated it it was ok. Of particular note is berbard distinction between the present use of money medium of exchange and unit of account and the future use of money store of wealth and standard for deferred payments.
Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity
This is a brilliant analysis of our current monetary system and its pitfalls. With this restructuring, everything changes. Only time will tell. This book is regarded as a classic by the proponents of new money.
Rethinking money. How new currencies turn scarcity into prosperity.
With that restructuring, everything changes. They skirt around the point that this is the nature of capitalism. Debt- and interest-driven money both ex Although we often forget, money is just a social construct.
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