Like the proverbial fish who doesn’t know what water is, we swim in an economy built on money that few of us comprehend, and, most definitely, what we don’t know is hurting us.
Very few people realize that the nature of money has changed profoundly over the past three centuries, or—as has been clear with the latest global financial crisis—the extent to which it has become a political instrument used to centralize power, concentrate wealth, and subvert popular government. On top of that, the economic growth imperative inherent in the present global monetary system is a main driver of global warming and other environmental crises.
The End of Money and the Future of Civilization demystifies the subjects of money, banking, and finance by tracing historical landmarks and important evolutionary shifts that have changed the essential nature of money. Greco’s masterful work lays out the problems and then looks to the future for a next stage in money’s evolution that can liberate us as individuals and communities from the current grip of centralized and politicized money power.
Greco provides specific design proposals and exchange-system architectures for local, regional, national, and global financial systems. He offers strategies for their implementation and outlines actions grassroots organizations, businesses, and governments will need to take to achieve success.
Ultimately, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization provides the necessary understanding— for entrepreneurs, activists, and civic leaders—to implement approaches toward monetary liberation. These approaches would empower communities, preserve democratic institutions, and begin to build economies that are sustainable, democratic, and insulated from the financial crises that plague the dominant monetary system.
Tabla de materias
1. My purpose and my journey
2. mega-crisis and metamorphosis
3. can civilization be saved?
4. the contest for rulership
5. two opposing philosophies
6. central banking and the rise of the money power
7. the new world order
8. usury and the engine of destruction
9. the nature and cause of inflation
10. the separation of money and state
11. the evolution of money
12. from commodity money to credit money
13. the third evolutionary stage
14. the emergence of credit clearing
15. solving the money problem
16. credit clearing, the ‘unmoney’
17. the state of the alternative exchange movement
18. how complementary currencies succeed or fail
19. commercial trade exchanges
20. their present limitations and potential future
21. a regional economic development plan based on credit clearing
22. the next big thing in business : a complete web-based trading platform
23. organizational forms and structures for local self-determination and complementary exchange
24. the role of governments in establishing economic and financial stability
25. exchange, finance, and the store of value
Sobre el autor
Thomas H. Greco, Jr. is the director of the Community Information Resource Center, which he founded in 1992. CIRC is a nonprofit consulting organization and networking hub dedicated to economic equity, social justice, and community improvement, specializing in community currency and mutual credit design, development, and implementation. He is a former engineer and professor of business administration. Tom’s books include Money and Debt: A Solution to the Global Crisis, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender, and The End of Money and the Future of Civilization. For more information on re-creating money systems, visit another webpage of Tom’s, Reinventing Money (reinventingmoney.com).
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