money systems

MMT and a Community Currency

Interesting to see that MMT has been discovered by the alternative currency movement and has been pressed into service. The acronyms makes this piece in Re-Imagining Economics by Tadit Anderson very hard reading but worth it. [...]

Ellen Brown on the benefits of State Banks

Ellen Brown writes here about the indebted US states but her prescription also works for indebted eurozone member states. Just substitute ECB for the FED and you have it. …..So Who Will Save the States? Highlighting the immediacy of the local government budget crisis, The Wall Street Journal quoted Meredith Whitney, a banking analyst who [...]

The New Emergency Workshop – Rebuilding the Money System

Recording of parallel workshop with Richard Douthwaite, and Ludwig Schuster. This video is available to Feasta Members and attendees of the conference only. Please contact website @ feasta.org for access.

The Economic Challenge of Sustainability

This paper, which was written for CORI Justice, gives an overview of Feasta’s ideas about economic growth, money systems, peak oil, and the need for a land value tax and for citizen carbon quotas.

by Richard Douthwaite and Emer Ó Siochrú

The full document is included below, or download a PDF version.…

Notes for the UK Sustainable Development Commission, re Redefining Prosperity

By John Jopling for Feasta, October 2003

This submission argues that the Sustainable Development Commission has thus far tended to emphasise symptoms of global problems rather than their root causes. In particular, it argues that the SDC should consider the role played by the global financial system in the world economy, and the link between debt-based money and the pressure on economies to expand indefinitely.

The full text can be found below or downloaded as a PDF version…

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