Archive for the ‘The money system’ Category
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New publications from the Foundation
An economic paradigm for stable, sustainable, development by Anders Höglund
This discussion paper presents Höglund’s Interest rate rule: a new paradigm within the field of macroeconomics. It suggests practical methods to maintain an optimally strong, environmentally compliant and genuinely sustainable, employment-conducive demand in the economy.
Download the publication here An-economic-paradigm-for-stable-sustainable-development
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We overshot on the 21 August
If your year’s salary was used up nine months into the year, and you were forced to live on savings and use up assets, you would rightly be criticised for not keeping control of your economy. That is, however, precisely what we are doing.
Humanity has demanded all the ecological services – from filtering CO2 [...] -
10 common sense principles for the new economy
David Korten is co-founder and board chair of YES! Magazine, co-chair of the New Economy Working Group, president of the People-Centered Development Forum, and a founding board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies(BALLE).
Following the publication of his book,
Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, he has formulated these ten common sense principles [...] -
The Bank of North Dakota USA presents a viable alternative
This Bank is different: learn how.
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The world is on the cusp of an economic collapse
One highlight of the recent Transition Network conference in Devon was the talk by Stoneleigh called ” Making Sense of the Financial Crisis in the Era of Peak Oil”, which you can hear in full here. Stoneleigh is one of two editors of the ‘Automatic Earth’ blog, and her talk was stark. [...]
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New Economics Foundation calls for banking reform
At the end of April, the British think tank, nef (the new economics foundation) launched its manifesto on banking. This Manifesto calls for root and branch reform to control the banks and re-building the system in which they operate.
Nef calls for a credible plan to re-engineer the financial system so that it becomes [...] -
The European Journalism Centre questions our current paradigm of money
Billed as “an international conference on the role of the media in the financial crisis” - the European Journalism Center invited Bernard A. Lietaer, Research Fellow, University of California to present his ideas in money systems. He asks why journalists do not question the monopoly on bank debt money. This system he likens this [...]