Charles van der Haegen's List: Monetary system reform

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Alan watts what if money is not an object

"The Finance Innovation Lab is an incubator for positive change in the financial system.

We believe in a financial system that works for people and for the planet. One that is democratic, responsible and fair.

We build communities of innovators and advocates who are creating a better financial system. We help them grow as leaders and scale their work.

We do this in three ways;

We incubate new business models, innovation in mainstream and new forms of civil society
We accelerate the capacity of leaders to create change
We create the wider conditions for change by raising awareness, creating supportive communities and advocating for policy change

We work with people from a broad spectrum of backgrounds, including mainstream finance, the creative industries, academia, NGOs and the alternative business and finance world.

The Lab is co-convened by WWF-UK (World Wide Fund for Nature) and ICAEW (the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales). Iit was launched in 2008 and has been named one ‘50 New Radicals, changing the face of Britain for the better’ by NESTA and The Observer newspaper."

"De angst op de financiële markten voor een nieuwe recessie in Europa neemt fors toe. De nationale overheden en de Europese Centrale Bank (ECB) zullen stimuleringsmaatregelen moeten nemen om een ‘triple dip’ — een derde recessie na de klappen door de kredietcrisis en de schuldencrisis — te voorkomen, zo stellen economen."

"A community without dollars is not a community without wealth – this basic insight lies at the heart of the community resilience movement. With income and wealth inequality still on the rise in our “post-recession” economy, communities are finding creative ways to meet their needs and maintain social ties through community-created forms of exchange, or complementary currencies. And, as with most social innovations, existing legal and regulatory systems take some time to catch up.

With the recent passage of the California Alternative Currencies Act, AB 129, California has taken a significant step toward fostering more just and resilient local economies."

Guardian article by Razmig Keucheyan

Debt audits show that austerity is politically motivated to favour social elites. Is a new working-class internationalism in the air?

"As history has shown, France is capable of the best and the worst, and often in short periods of time.

On the day following Marine Le Pen's Front National victory in the European elections, however, France made a decisive contribution to the reinvention of a radical politics for the 21st century. On that day, the committee for a citizen's audit on the public debt issued a 30-page report on French public debt, its origins and evolution in the past decades. The report was written by a group of experts in public finances under the coordination of Michel Husson, one of France's finest critical economists. Its conclusion is straightforward: 60% of French public debt is illegitimate."

"SIX years after the financial meltdown there is once again talk about market bubbles. Are stocks succumbing to exuberance? Is real estate? We thought we had exorcised these demons. It is therefore with something close to despair that we ask: What is it about risk taking that so eludes our understanding, and our control?"

"In de Gentse wijk Rabot-Blaisantvest belonen we vrijwilligers die zich inzetten voor mooie straten, propere pleinen of een beter milieu met een eigen munteenheid: de Torekes. Vrijwilligers die zich een uur inzetten krijgen daarvoor 25 Torekes. Met de Torekes kan er in de wijk brood, groenten en fruit gekocht worden. Aan het Torekesloket kan je oa. spaarlampen, tramtickets, ... verkrijgen.

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"Aims of the Journal

The IJCCR was conceived as an online forum for disseminating knowledge about community and complementary currencies. As a freely available online resource, it makes new scientific knowledge about this innovative phenomenon accessible to all, so overcoming many of the barriers separating ‘academics’ from ‘activists’. It also offers speedy publication of new findings, again overcoming the lengthy delays associated with publishing in traditional academic print journals.

This peer-reviewed journal aims to provide a common forum for informed articulation and debate of empirical, critical and theoretical research on community currencies. We seek to bridge the gaps in knowledge, practice and communication which exist between community currency ‘activists’ and ‘academics’.

Community currencies are here defined widely to encompass the full range of possible currency systems. Our desire is to facilitate analysis not only of those systems currently in use, including the ‘money-based’ systems such as LETS, time-based systems such as time-dollars and Ithaca hours, other scrip-based community exchanges as well as business trade exchanges, but also to provide an arena in which the historical use of community currencies can be explored."

très bonne introduction de Bernard, avec des exemples modernes, adapté aux temps présents

"Published on Oct 2, 2013

Bernard Lietaer explains why shifting the paradigm from monoculture to monetary ecosystem is essential for a prosperous world that stays within its ecological boundaries. Part of the CCS conference series"

"What is money? And how successful is it in solving society’s ills and meeting its needs?

Currency expert Bernard Lietaer states that the fundamental problem with our present-day monetary system is that it is not sufficiently diverse. It dams and bottlenecks our creative energies, and keeps us trapped in a world of scarcity and suffering. But we actually have the capacity to create a very different reality by enabling our energies to move more freely where they are most needed, including towards cleaning up our environment, building adequate housing and providing good quality healthcare, etc.

On Wednesday 23 April, Lietaer will show that we need an upgrade of our monetary systems as a systemic solution to our global economic, financial and sustainability crisis. He will show that we need the circulation of different types of currencies for different types of purposes.

This event is jointly organised by SCOPE | Economics, the School of Business and Economics and Studium Generale."

"Speaker: Prof. Bernard Lietaer
Title: Changing our Monetary System: Why and How

What is money? And how successful is it in solving society’s ills and meeting its needs?

Currency expert Bernard Lietaer states that the fundamental problem with our present-day monetary system is that it is not sufficiently diverse. It dams and bottlenecks our creative energies, and keeps us trapped in a world of scarcity and suffering. But we actually have the capacity to create a very different reality by enabling our energies to move more freely where they are most needed, including towards cleaning up our environment, building adequate housing and providing good quality healthcare, etc.

Prof. Lietaer argues that we need an upgrade of our monetary systems as a systemic solution to our global economic, financial and sustainability crisis. He shows that we need the circulation of different types of currencies for different types of purposes."

"Why We’re in a New Gilded Age
Paul Krugman
May 8, 2014 Issue
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas Piketty, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 685 pp., $39.95"

"Topbankier schetst een beangstigend beeld van de megalomane macht van banken. Tegenlicht vraagt Ewald Engelen, Bernard Lietaer en Herman Wijffels: hoe nu verder?

Locatie: een ontruimde kantoorkolos in Frankfurt, het financiële hart van de eurozone. De inmiddels ontslagen zakenbankier "
Locatie: een ontruimde kantoorkolos in Frankfurt, het financiële hart van de eurozone. De inmiddels ontslagen zakenbankier Rainer Voss (o.a. Deutsche Bank) vertelt openhartig over de financiële praktijken in de bankenwereld en over zijn eigen rol daarin. Wrange herinneringen ophalend filosofeert en speculeert hij over wat we vanuit deze sector nog kunnen verwachten. Tegenlicht selecteerde de meest pakkende passages uit de documentaire Master of the Universe (regisseur Marc Bauder) en gaat in op de nog onderbelichte kanten van wat de ‘bankencrisis’ is gaan heten. De vraag is: hoe nu verder, in Nederland, in Europa?

Lietaer over nieuwe geldcultuur
Lietaer over nieuwe geldcultuur

Het Belgische tijdschrift Rekto Verso interviewde Lietaer over alternatieve geldsystemen

Zie ook de Biecht van de Bankier
http://tegenlicht.vpro.nl/afleveringen/2013-2014/de-biecht-van-de-bankier.html

"Published on Mar 14, 2014

Bitcoin might seem like a new idea for many, but the concept of complementary currencies goes way back. The Agenda asks: what is currency, and when is national currency not enough?"

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"Published on Feb 18, 2014

Currency Solutions for a Wiser World -- Bernard Lietaer meets with Peace Ambassador Jasmuheen for the Embassy of Peace in Brussels, Belgium 2013. Their discussions include currency diversity, stability and sustainability, making money democratic, the matri-focal view, the divine feminine and balance in the global financial systems and much more. Bernard is also the author of many books and articles including "Rethinking Money" which points out that there is a way, in fact a thousand ways, to stop our current juggernaut towards global self-destruction. There is a system of solutions already in place in localities throughout the world where terrible problems have existed. The changes came about, not through the redistribution of wealth, increased conventional taxation, bond measures or enlightened self-interest from corporate entities, but rather, by people simply rethinking the concept of money. With that restructuring, everything changed. Remedies for Government, Business and Entrepreneurship, NGOs and the Civil Society, and the private citizen are offered. The book also presents clear validation, speaking plainly and directly to general interest readers. This work promises to strike a deep chord with audiences eager to find meaningful, thought-provoking answers. Bernard writes - "Humanity is now at a critical juncture. As Paul Hawken succinctly put it in his inspiring address to Portland University's graduate class in May of 2009, 'civilization needs a new operating system,' and fast. Many of the socio-economic rules under which we operate were created under a worldview that failed to recognize that the earth is a living system and that every form of life has its unique and valuable place and purpose in sustaining the larger web of life." For more in-depth data go to:- www.lietaer.com"

"Published on Aug 18, 2013

In this lecture Bernard Lietaer will argue that the monoculture of money is responsible for the creation of economic instability.

Bernard Lietaer is a civil engineer, economist, author and professor. He studies monetary systems and promotes the idea that communities can benefit from creating their own local or complementary currency, which circulate parallel with national currencies."

"A new home for the ccResearch Group!

The complementary currency (cc) Research Group is a network of researchers, authors and academics working on complementary currency systems and related types of appropriate and sustainable exchange systems.

The purpose of the ccResearch Group is to provide peer support and collaboration across individuals, institutions and disciplines, aspiring to "open notebook science" principles.

The group was originally proposed and hosted by Stephen DeMeulenaere of the "CC Resource Center".

Since 2014 the group has been moderated by Leander Bindewald and hosted on www.community-currency.info, courtesy of the New Economics Foundation (nef) and the Community Currencies in Action (CCIA) EU Interreg project. "