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Shifting the global economy towards sustainability Making Money Our Servant Rather Than Our Master Right Livelihood Social enterprise Legal and Financial Issues
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”If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.” Sir Francis Bacon |
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Making Money Our Servant Rather than Our MasterWe rarely pay much attention to how money works; most take it for granted as a necessary but largely neutral lubricant of economic transactions. In fact nothing could be further from the truth: the distinctive way in which money works has a profound influence on almost all aspects of our economic life. We will explore the various different ways in which our money systems condition economic behaviour. We will then look at proposed changes that have been made for monetary reform with the aim of enabling money to have a more benign impact on economic life. Finally, we examine a wide range of complementary currency, savings and investment models that have been developed in recent years as tools to facilitate community economic empowerment. |
The mighty dollar
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