Rethinking money : how new currencies turn scarcity into prosperity
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Rethinking money : how new currencies turn scarcity into prosperity
（A BK currents book）
Berrett-Koehler, c2013
- : hbk
Available at 1 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-248) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Many of the world's economic ills - short-termism, compulsory growth pressure, cyclical recessions, unrelenting concentration of wealth, and erosion of social capital can be traced to our competitive money system, in which there is built-in economic scarcity and never enough money for people to pay off their debts.
We need an economic system that is both cooperative and competitive, with each balancing and complimenting the other. Lietaer and Dunne tell how such a balanced system can be created and, in fact, how it is already being built in many places around the world. Individual citizens, entrepreneurs, businesses, communities, and governments are creating new cooperative money systems that link unused resources with unmet needs. Over the past 30 years there has been a tremendous growth of cooperative currencies from fewer than 100 in 1980 to over 4,000 today. But we need many more of them spread more consistently all over the globe. We also need more large-scale cooperative currencies. The emergent cooperative currency movement needs to grow up. Dodging the dogma of both left or right Rethinking Money provides the roadmap for this to happen.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: Scarcity
Chapter 1: The Failure of Money - The Competitive Society
Chapter 2: Money Matters
Chapter 3: A Fate Worse than Debt: Interest's Hidden Consequences
Chapter 4: Our Available Future: The Cooperative Society
Chapter 5: The Flying Fish: A New Perspective on Money
Chapter 6: The Future Has Arrived But Isn't Evenly Distributed....Yet!
Part Two: Prosperity
Chapter 7: Strategies for Banking Institutions
Chapter 8: Strategies for Business and Entrepreneurship
Chapter 9: A Strategy For Multinational Corporations
Chapter 10: Strategies for NGOs
Chapter 11: Strategies for Governments
Part Three: Rethinking Money
Chapter 12: An Expensive Tuition
Chapter 13: An Ancient Future: Governance and Us, The Citizens
Chapter 14: Rethinking Money!
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