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How to Dismantle an Empire (A 2020 Vision: the Economics of Community) Paperback – June 6, 2021

by Tereza Coraggio (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
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How to Dismantle an Empire is a people’s history of money. Going back 3500 years and traveling around the world, it shows the tricks that have trapped us into making the rich richer. Using humor and everyday logic, along with deep research, it exposes the lies by which we're forced to live. Using metaphor and storytelling, it invites us to think differently. Using the wisdom of indigenous rebels, regenerative ranchers, and sci-fi visionaries, it imagines what could be and outlines the steps to get there.

This book holds one consistent belief: people are inherently good and when they behave badly, systems are to blame. With just three system changes, we can care for the people, places, and planet that have been entrusted to us. Each chapter proposes paradigm shifts, defines key terms, and presents readers with questions designed to challenge and transform their thinking. For instance:
  • Bigger is better for empire but smaller supports self-governance. When the US formed, the world had 18,000 nations—today there are fewer than 200 and a dozen control all the rest.
  • Benjamin Franklin invented the colonial currency that ended poverty and spread prosperity … until British bankers outlawed it. This, not a tax on tea, sparked the Revolutionary War.
  • Money is a means of organizing labor in the interests of whoever issues it. Governments don’t have the money for services or projects, so who does issue it and control our labor?
Tereza Coraggio believes that communities have an inherent ability to solve their own problems and meet their own needs. She introduces new ways to think about old problems, new strategies to find common ground, and new worlds that we can dream together. Pandemics reveal that systems we thought could never change can crumble at the drop of a Monopoly man’s hat. The hat has dropped; it’s time to run with it.

Here is an original, risk-taking book that climbed inside this reader’s head and rearranged what I thought I knew, throwing out junk to make space for brilliant, practical, hopeful propositions for a world that just might be possible.
—Donna Haraway, author of Staying With the Trouble
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    A 2020 Vision: the Economics of Community
  2. Print length
    398 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publication date
    June 6, 2021
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1733347607
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1733347600
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 6, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 398 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1733347607
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1733347600
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.48 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
  • Book 1 of 1 ‏ : ‎ A 2020 Vision: the Economics of Community
  • Best Sellers Rank: #2,079,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
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  • JCV
    5.0 out of 5 stars Life-changing and mind boggling!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2024
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    This book makes me excited to be human! I feel hopeful when I read the words penned here. Tereza Coraggio is a visionary! I laughed, I cried, and I thought deeply as I read the book. I can’t recommend this enough. It is a must read!
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  • Teo Jacobsen
    5.0 out of 5 stars This is the most interesting book I have read in a long time.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2023
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    The book offers insight into how currency has been used by those that hold power throughout history. Tereza Coraggio has created exercises and points of reflection at the end of each chapter.

    I highly recommend this book. It gives a much needed perspective on the influence of currencies on historical events. The book offers a way out of our dependencies. I wish our politicians here in Norway would read it and learn from it.

    I only wish there was a Norwegian translation of the book as well.
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  • Marc Bedard Pelchat
    5.0 out of 5 stars Calling herself a housewife Tereza Coraggio is definitely bringing that title to a new high
    Reviewed in Canada on July 14, 2023
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    Reading How to Dismantle an Empire is a jaw-dropping experience. It's equivalent to reading an alternative encyclopedia of human history compacted in less than 400 pages. Relying on her own readings and research on the subject matters she discusses, the reader is facing a perspective on historical matters and current history that demolished most of what has been taught certainly in high school years, college and beyond. I doubt economics taught at universities are able to compare to this insight in such a way at such a speed. They will keep you from spending thousands of dollars to know things that are bland in comparison.
    The difference between hers and Stephanie Kelton's sight on economics and money is that Tereza Coraggio is not perpuating the status quo with a state/country perspective but rather gives back the economic power locally which is what I find way more interesting. In both cases though we wil need a lot of education and convincing before this can be achieved at all.
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