Based on the four mega-trends of monetary instability, global greying (an ageing global population), the information revolution, and climate change and species extinction, Bernard Lietaer looks at different scenarios of what the world might be like in 2020. 1. The Corporate Millennium: governments are disbanded, central banks close down and the world is run with Big Brother control by huge corporations with their own currencies.2. Caring Communities: people retreat into small, self-sustaining communities, like tribes.3. Hell on Earth: in which the breakdown of life as we know it is followed by a highly individualistic free-for-all, resulting in an ever more obscene gulf between rich and poor.4. Sustainable Abundance: envisages a world where we take better care of the environment, re-engage the poor and the unemployed in mainstream society and give back time and fulfilment to the over-worked, while providing the elderly with a high level of personal care. A society of sustainable abundance is achievable - but only if we are willing to re-invent our money system and create new currencies.
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"Read this thoughtful, penetrating, readable book and you'll understand how profoundly present monetary systems and the people who control them affect your life" -- Dee Hock, Founder And Ceo Emeritus, Visa International "Exciting, challenging and profound; a unique and essential contribution to our understanding of money." -- Dr. Peter Russell, Author Of The Global Brain Awakens "This is an important breakthrough in the emerging new economics ofsustainability and human wellbeing." -- Ed Mayo, President, The New Economics Foundation "I thoroughly disagree with it." -- The Rt. Hon. John Redwood, Mp
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Bernard Lietaer has spent 25 years working in different areas of the money system. He worked on the creation of the single European currency and was named the world's top currency trader by Business Week in 1989 (making $22m in three years). He was Professor of International Finance at the University of Louvain, Belgium, and a Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resources at the University of California, Berkeley. His vast range of experience and knowledge of global money systems has made him one of the world's foremost financial visionaries.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A pragmatic yet hopeful book on community currency innovations
September 11, 2005
Format:Paperback
This book allowed me to understand the system of money and money supply. I will be attempting to convince our small midwestern county to adopt a community supporting complimentary currency as a result of reading it.
19 of 26 people found the following review helpful
By Discursives
Format:Paperback
If you haven't read this book yet, then you are behind the curve. There's a time and a place for everything, and the good things in life take some effort. This is one of those. Hard to find, easy to read, amazingly difficult to put into action, this book outlines a set of principles and futures that no American family should be without access to.
The American family may have a future that can't be bought without the knowledge in this book. Find out for yourself whether your own conception of 'value' will allow you to prosper in a new economy and world that is dawning RIGHT NOW.
The American family may have a future that can't be bought without the knowledge in this book. Find out for yourself whether your own conception of 'value' will allow you to prosper in a new economy and world that is dawning RIGHT NOW.
4 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Local Currencies build Trust, & power to the people with more acountability
October 18, 2010
By C. Holliman
Format:Paperback
If you want to leave a legacy that counts then get on board . This is the issue . Now we need it even more with corporate currencies coming our way as the author stated years ago . Bernard Lietaer is well known is in Europe, & the currency markets . Bernard lays out a view that most people are not aware of . Bernard also gives solutions . Only about 20% make have been able to make it do able so far . Please do research ? I believe we now have even a better chance of making a local currency happen very soon . Do to over spending of the top 20 nations holding electronic currencies ?
Are you aware that N. Dakota had 26?% return on their state bank ? Good for the taxpayers right . How very few politicians don't bring the issue up ? Maybe we should mention it at every town hall meeting ?
Are you aware that N. Dakota had 26?% return on their state bank ? Good for the taxpayers right . How very few politicians don't bring the issue up ? Maybe we should mention it at every town hall meeting ?
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