Money and Sustainability: The Missing Link: The Missing Link (black and white edition) - Brossura

Lietaer, Bernard; Arnsperger, Christian; Goerner, Sally

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1908009772 ISBN 13: 9781908009777

Casa editrice: Triarchy Pr, 2012

Riassunto

A report from the Club of Rome - EU Chapter to Finance Watch and the World Business Academy. Foreword by Dennis Meadows, co-author of the 1972 Club of Rome report The Limits to Growth. Pioneering new research from the Club of Rome: In 1972, the first Report for the Club of Rome - The Limits to Growth - famously spelled out the unsustainable consequences of an economic system that demands infinite growth in a finite world. Just as The Limits to Growth exposed the catastrophic flaws in our economic system, this new Report from the Club of Rome exposes the systemic flaws in our money system and the wrong thinking that underpins it. It describes the ongoing currency and banking crises we must expect if we continue with the current monopoly system - and the vicious impact of these crises on our communities, our society as a whole and our environment. It finishes by setting out clear, practical proposals for creating a money 'ecosystem' with complementary currencies to support and stabilize the current money system.

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Recensione:

"So here we have it. The austerity versus Keynsian spending debate is about as useful as arguing whether the earth is flat or sitting on the back of a pile of turtles. Neither will provide sustainable interventions to our converging crises while the debt-based money system remains the only significant game in town.

Money & Sustainability is as long as it has to be and no longer. Its 200 page analysis details the adverse impact of the current financial system on sustainability as a root cause of boom and bust cycles. It requires short-term thinking and unending growth, concentrates wealth and destroys social capital.

The authors first ‘make explicit’ the prevailing economic paradigm and contrast this with an ecological economics approach.... The underlying narrative here, of how a fantasy world (or model of economic reality) has come to be taken as read and treated as gospel by a whole generation of economists, academics and politicians, is short and to the point. It deals brutally with two of the main faults in this paradigm: the treatment of non-monetised entities (notably the environment, non-paid activities and cultural and spiritual traditions) as irrelevant externalities; and the erroneous assumption that money is a passive neutral element : an ‘innocuous facilitator’. The first of these has received a fair amount of air-time lately though the summary here is concise and helpful. The second is described via consideration of a monetary ‘blind spot’ comprising three layers.

Although dual or multi-currency societies have existed, appreciation of how they have operated is not widespread and mainstream economics generally ignores them, assuming a single, monopolistic hierarchically-issued currency. The communism versus capitalism ideology war has layered on top of this assumption (embodied in both ideologies) a blanket of comparative debates and analyses, further obscuring the single currency hegemony. And on top of this, a layer of institutions, central banks, and academics have pickled and preserved this monetary orthodoxy. The book reminds us that no matter how entrenched, repeated and defended, this structure is still just a paradigm – a particular view of reality – and alternative paradigms exist."

Reviewed at resilience.org

 

 

Product Description:

Book by Lietaer Bernard Arnsperger Christian and Sally Goe

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• Editore: Triarchy Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1908009772
• ISBN 13: 9781908009777
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 216