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Money is a story: let’s tell a new one – Greaterthanfinance – Medium. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World by Niall Ferguson Epsd 1 5 Full Documentary. Le Livre néochartaliste. À la demande de mes lecteurs, voici Devises, l’irrésistible émergence de la monnaie, le premier livre néochartaliste francophone, annoncé publiquement le 23 septembre 2013.

Le Livre néochartaliste

Recommandé à tous ceux qui veulent approfondir le sujet et ne pas avoir à naviguer sur un écran dans le dédale des hyperliens du blog. Il contient plus de 400 pleines pages expliquant sous toutes les coutures la monnaie, synthétisant pour moitié des analyses dispersées sur ce blog, et pour une autre moitié des recherches originales, tant statistiques que textuelles, réalisées expressément pour ce livre… La première partie décortique nos systèmes monétaires actuels (hors euro, qui est trop tordu pour ne pas être abordé qu’ultérieurement). A safe harbor for community currencies. The French Parliament wants to regulate community currencies as commercial means of payment.

A safe harbor for community currencies

The “Law on social and solidary based economy” (Loi relative à l’économie solidaire et sociale – acronym LESS) has been amended to introduce legislation for complementary local currencies (monnaies locales complémentaires, here after community currencies or CC’s). The amendment offers to include in the French monetary and financial code (CMF) two new articles (articles L311-5 et L311-6). The purpose of the first article (L311-5) is to allow a Social and Solidarity based economy undertakings (label acronym in French - EESS) to issue and to manage community currencies. The second article (L311-6) then states that “when” a community currency “pertains to” payment services or electronic money then it must be issued and managed by a bank. How the proposed law works Therefore the crucial fight in legislation is making sure that a real practice gets the appropriate classification in law.

James Kielkopf's answer to What is the future of money? The Future of Money Timeline. Currency as a commons - currencies that work! At the moment of this writing, timebanking in Finland is awaiting new guidelines from Finnish Tax Administration which is coming out tomorrow 5.11.

Currency as a commons - currencies that work!

Following a first draft of the new guidelines, Helsinki Timebank expressed its concern of any new guidelines including euro taxation of skilled work done in aikapankki according to market value, which would destroy the equality basis of all work done in the timebank, and has instead pointed to the importance of the need for further assessment to come to a better understanding of the nature and workings of timebanking and its accounting points, of its potential including its autonomous internal timetax, and of the ethical limits as outlined in the case of stadin aikapankki.

No real political discussion around aikapankki has taken place, and argumentation has been along the lines that helping others, or watering the plants of your neighbours, must not be taxed. Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin – review. In The Importance of Being Earnest, the prim governess Miss Prism tells her young charge Cecily to omit the chapter on the fall of the rupee in the political economy textbook she has been instructed to study: "It is somewhat too sensational.

Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin – review

Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side. " And in Felix Martin's stimulating and timely book we see how right Miss Prism was: money – metallic or paper – may seem deadly dull, but it actually stands centre-stage in today's most important political and economic conflicts. Moreover, it is economists' blinkered insistence that money is just a "technical" and relatively minor issue that explains why they, and their politician followers, brought the world to the brink of catastrophe in 2008 – and why they are conspicuously failing to rescue us from that crisis. Interview with Benjamin J. Cohen, author of The Future of Money. The Origin of Money and Its Value - Robert P. Murphy.

The importance of the Austrian school of economics is nowhere better demonstrated than in the area of monetary theory.

The Origin of Money and Its Value - Robert P. Murphy

It is in this realm that the simplifying assumptions of mainstream economic theory wreak the most havoc. In contrast, the commonsensical, "verbal logic" of the Austrians is entirely adequate to understand the nature of money and its valuation by human actors. How to Make Better Decisions Together. Photo by Maurice from Zoetermeer, Netherlands Learning how to make decisions together is a crucial element of getting along and getting things done with others.

How to Make Better Decisions Together

It’s wise for your group to learn how to steer your boat together with collective decision-making before you have a sinking ship on your hands. I’ve learned these skills through workshops, readings and from living and working in cooperatives and they have been incredibly valuable to the success of these projects. Collective decision-making has innumerable rewards. If group members affected by the decision are involved, less conflict will result. What is Modern Monetary Theory, or “MMT”? Formation aux monnaies complémentaires. What if Money didn't Matter? Narration by Alan Watts. Currencies of the Future. Many people complain about government control of currency, but only a few do something about it. I’m not talking about movements to “audit the Fed” and such.

I’m talking about real innovation that makes an end run around the government’s iron grip on the monetary system. A few of us old folks might like to return to the days of slapping a silver dollar on the bar for a shot of whiskey, but the younger techno-savvy generation sees paying for their Negroni cocktail with virtual currency from their hand-held device. To serve this market, a new world of virtual currencies has popped up spontaneously. In a debate, Mitt Romney said, “You couldn’t have people opening up banks in their garage and making loans.” Really? Money develops from being the most marketable good that in turn is used for indirect trade.

In 2009, Japanese programmer “Satoshi Nakamoto” (not his real name) was designing and implementing Bitcoin. The naysayers contend Bitcoins never had a nonmonetary commodity value. VIRTUAL CURRENCY SCHEMES, OCTOBER 2012. The Future of Money. 215 – Résumé 100% monnaie. Nota: Ce texte est paru le 25 juillet 2011 sur le blog « Financer l’avenir » de La Fondation pour la Nature et l’Homme Nous l’avions déjà cité sur ce blog Le « 100% monnaie » n’est pas (encore) dans un quelconque programme politique, mais il est probable que vous en entendrez de plus en plus parler.

215 – Résumé 100% monnaie

Il a donc semblé intéressant de vous faire partager un résumé concernant cette possible « révolution » monétaire et bancaire. Aujourd’hui Le secteur bancaire n’est pas une industrie comme les autres car son fonctionnement produit des « externalités » qui peuvent être dommageables pour les autres secteurs, et le produit qu’il crée, la monnaie, n’est pas un produit comme les autres car il permet d’exercer sur les marchés un pouvoir d’achat déstabilisateur .

Il existe une différence fondamentale entre les deux types de monnaies que nous utilisons, nous les « agents non bancaires » (État, entreprises et ménages). De cette description, il faut retenir 2 points essentiels: Value vs. Money, Part I: Bread, Viking Ships and You. Les monnaies sociales: et si on arrachait aux banques le privilège de la monnaie ? » Article » Ownipolitics, Bilan, débats et enjeux. L'argent rend mois sociable les gens experience. Accord sans Précédent de la Chine, du Japon et de la Russie. Monnaies virtuelles: une révolution fiscale? Utopies Monétaires Internationales (expo)