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THE FUTURE OF MONEY Bernard A. Lietaer About the Author Bernard Lietaer had thirty years of professional experiences, which tend to mutually exclude each . The Future of Money has ratings and 14 reviews. Joshua said: Fascinating! It is especially prescient given that it was published in (!) yet seem. Bernard Lietaer March 1. The Future of Money: How New Currencies Create Wealth, Work and a Wiser World. (Book #2 – US Version). June

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In addition, the new money frontier – the ‘cybersphere’ – is explored, in which many of the currency innovations are brewing. All of the above is part of an irreversible process of change in fyture money system and our societies. Greco regards the recent change to ‘credit’ or fiat money – going off ‘the gold standard’ – as the ultimate debasement, and as the cause of inflation. Following a chapter-by-chapter outline, Lietaer points to a Primer on How Money Workswhich is as an appendix.

It is a development that is neither automatic nor preordained. This instantaneously shattered my iletaer reputation lietaet the ‘world’s top currency trader’. This book looks set to be the herald of the future money revolution.

A professor at another university; one of my students; and a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England. In this, the book is perhaps dated.

Brian Leslie’s review of The Future Of Money, by Bernard Lietaer, and Money, by Thomas H Greco

In doing so, it also brings to light new potentials for our interactions with money. You will see that conventional national currencies and monetary systems are programmed to produce competition and to remain scarce. It is now leading us wherever it wants.

The inherent characteristics of physical resources natural and human-made made possible the development of hierarchies of power based on control of new weapons, of energy resources, of transport vehicles, of trade routes, of markets, and especially of knowledge ; hierarchies of influence based on secrecy hierarchies of class based on ownership; hierarchies of privilege based on early access to particular pieces of land or especially valuable resources; and hierarchies of politics based on geography.

This was followed by the Russian crash of and by the Brazilian crisis in early The final outcome is an accentuation of the imbalances in wealth distribution. He writes that while the modern money paradigm has both positive and negative consequences e. To understand this process fully, we need to look beyond appearances.

What does all this mean? Mar 17, Heidi rated it it was amazing. The Integral Economy includes the processes studied by traditional economic theory, and goes beyond it. An enquiry is then launched into different possible futures for our money system and how they would reshape society.

Climate change and biodiversity extinction Consider the following facts: The rabbit that appears to come out of the magician’s hat is not really coming from the hat, either.

No wonder ‘it is a tough world out there’, and that Darwin’s observation of the ‘survival of the fittest’ was so readily accepted as self-evident truth by the 18th century English, as well as by any societies that have accepted, without question, the premises of the money system that they designed, such as we have fture.

Writing this book has, therefore, not been a cool, abstract intellectual exercise. What would each of us like to fuutre

Money is not the infinite, but futurf indefinite, an astounding complex of all sorts of psychological as well as material reactions. One of the oldest coins is a Sumerian bronze piece dating back to about Be.

By learning the principles of Sustainable abundance, you can become a part of this quiet but momentous evolution. Practically nil, because there is no one else with whom to communicate at that point.

Or are the challenges and issues facing our world today being fuelled by an even deeper systematic problem? A pragmatic currency system will be presented later that would make decisions of this kind not only possible, but completely logical. A digital version of this book is available for download at the bottom of this page. The Old Story is ufture functioning properly any more, and we have not learned the New Story.

Our prevailing system is an unconscious product of the modern Industrial Age worldview, and it remains the most powerful and persistent designer and enforcer of the ov and dominant emotions of that age. Trivia About The Future of Money. They depend on who uses this new dominant resource, how astutely, for what purposes. This is how today’s money system pits the participants in the economy against each other.

The Swiss WIR is the only long-lived example he quotes. What is particularly inventive about this scheme, that goes back to pre- Victorian England, is its ability to enable societies to solve the apparent contradiction between two objectives: However, until then, or in the absence of reform, these currencies are likely to become of increasing importance to survival.

A Primer is available at the end of this book. The Future of Money is a compendium report about solutions already implemented by thousands of people around the world, who have had the courage to first identify, then directly address the underlying mechanism of their problems.

This is the void that this book intends to fill. Other examples will be given in the next chapter. Interestingly, the cyber lietxer could become the first actual large-scale involves information, both of us have it.

They receive an uninterrupted rent from whoever needs to borrow in order to obtain the necessary medium of exchange.

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Money is also the hidden engine of the perpetual growth treadmill that has become the hallmark of industrial societies. Wolfgang in Finance is into African dance and has famed his own dance troupe; Birgit in Pf, whose passion is wood carving, is considering making the special wooden frames for Anna’s window: Each of these five bases for hierarchy and discrimination is crumbling today because the old means of control are of dwindling efficacy.

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But several of these hallowed traditions were dropped and replaced with brand futture ones whenever they did not fit with the Zeitgeisoi pre-Victorian England. This means that all new money should be credited to the Treasury’s account so that the seigniorage – the profit from futue it is gained by the nation rather than any individual or business.

This article has multiple issues. More information and direct contact for answers to your questions are available in an on-line ‘Money Conference’ on www.