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3 years ago
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There are lots and lots of information on this subject, and it isn't possible to cover it all in a group like this, so - here is a list of books about alternative ways to understand, look upon and treat Economy. Not Chrematics, guys!
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Greco, Thomas H, Jr - New Money for Healthy Communities
3 years ago
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ISBN 0-9625208-2-9
- The how-to-do-it manual for local trading systems
- Describes exchange alternatives which reward pople fairly and reflect the reality of an abundant earth
- Shows how voluntary groups can revitalize local economies
- Outlines the true nature of money and new approaches to transforming money
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Goldsmith, James - The Trap
3 years ago
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ISBN 0 333 64224 4
"Rising long-term unemployment, increasing violence, growing poverty in urban slums, environmental deterioration and a general realization that something has gone wrong... These are the symptoms of a deeply troubled society. More frightening still is the pervasive feeling that those in power do not know what should be done."
"Rising long-term unemployment, increasing violence, growing poverty in urban slums, environmental deterioration and a general realization that something has gone wrong... These are the symptoms of a deeply troubled society. More frightening still is the pervasive feeling that those in power do not know what should be done."
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Robinson, Jeffrey - The Sink
3 years ago
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ISBN 1-84119-880-3
"How banks, lawyers and accountants finance terrorism and crime - and why governments can't stop them.
At any time an estimated £350 billion in dirty money is circling the globe looking to get clean. It represents just a fraction of the wealth of hidden offshore, untaxed and beyond the reach of law enforcement. Robinson's compelling account of where the line between legitimate business and crime vanishes is a damning indictment of ineffective attempts to control money laundering by cumbersome regulatory authorities.
This is a book to give Western governments nightmares. ... it presents evidence that money from drugs, crime and terrorism is now seriously out of control... and the whole black finance-system has been allowed to infiltrate legitimate economies and bankds to such an extent that it is virtually indestructible. Many of today's estimated 4 000 offshore banks have no physical presence anywhere, yet do legitimate business through 'correspondent banking' with London, New York and Frankfurt. They are ready-made washing machines for dirty money."
"How banks, lawyers and accountants finance terrorism and crime - and why governments can't stop them.
At any time an estimated £350 billion in dirty money is circling the globe looking to get clean. It represents just a fraction of the wealth of hidden offshore, untaxed and beyond the reach of law enforcement. Robinson's compelling account of where the line between legitimate business and crime vanishes is a damning indictment of ineffective attempts to control money laundering by cumbersome regulatory authorities.
This is a book to give Western governments nightmares. ... it presents evidence that money from drugs, crime and terrorism is now seriously out of control... and the whole black finance-system has been allowed to infiltrate legitimate economies and bankds to such an extent that it is virtually indestructible. Many of today's estimated 4 000 offshore banks have no physical presence anywhere, yet do legitimate business through 'correspondent banking' with London, New York and Frankfurt. They are ready-made washing machines for dirty money."
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Ormerod, Paul - The Death of Economics
3 years ago
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ISBN 0-571-17125-7
(snippets from the preface):
Economics has assumed a dominant positoin in the political life of the West, and orthodox economic theory has exercised great influence on the conduct of public policy. Even to the intelligent member of the public, economics is often intimidating. Its practitioners pronounce with great confidence in the media, and have erected around the discipline a barrier of jargon and mathematics which makes the subject difficult for the non-initiated.
Yet orthodox economics is in many ways an empty box. Its understanding of the world is similar to that of the physical sciences in the Middle Ages. A few insights have been obtained which will stand the test of time, but they are very few indeed, and the whole basis of conventional economics is deeply flawed.
Good economists know, from work carried out within their discipline, that the foundations of their subject are virtually non-existent.
(snippets from the preface):
Economics has assumed a dominant positoin in the political life of the West, and orthodox economic theory has exercised great influence on the conduct of public policy. Even to the intelligent member of the public, economics is often intimidating. Its practitioners pronounce with great confidence in the media, and have erected around the discipline a barrier of jargon and mathematics which makes the subject difficult for the non-initiated.
Yet orthodox economics is in many ways an empty box. Its understanding of the world is similar to that of the physical sciences in the Middle Ages. A few insights have been obtained which will stand the test of time, but they are very few indeed, and the whole basis of conventional economics is deeply flawed.
Good economists know, from work carried out within their discipline, that the foundations of their subject are virtually non-existent.
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Kennedy, Margrit - Interest and Inflation Free Money
3 years ago
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The Classic book in this field!
ISBN 0-9643025-0-0
Full text on-line. It comes in several languages.
A comprehensive book on how interest works and how inflation is the by-product of the current money system. A friend of mine, who studied in his last year (of four) to become an economist, read this book and said: "What I hadn't learned in 3.5 years at university, this book taught me in 3.5 minutes."
ISBN 0-9643025-0-0
Full text on-line. It comes in several languages.
A comprehensive book on how interest works and how inflation is the by-product of the current money system. A friend of mine, who studied in his last year (of four) to become an economist, read this book and said: "What I hadn't learned in 3.5 years at university, this book taught me in 3.5 minutes."
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Korten, David C - When Corporations Rule the World
3 years ago
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Second Edition of the Modern Classic, Released April 2001. Considered by many to be the "bible" of the emerging global Living Democracy Movement, When Corporations Rule the World has become a modern classic with a message that seems increasingly prophetic with each passing day. Its central message is a clear and unequivocal wake up call to humanity. The global economy has become like a malignant cancer, advancing the colonization of the planet's living spaces for the benefit of powerful corporations and financial institutions. It has turned these once useful institutions into instruments of a market tyranny that is destroying livelihoods, displacing people, and feeding on life in an insatiable quest for money . It forces us all to act in ways destructive of ourselves, our families, our communities, and nature. This destructive process is driven by a combination of institutional forces and an extremist ideology of corporate libertarianism that invokes the theories of Adam Smith and market economics to advance policies that systematically undermine both the market and democracy.
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Korten, David C - The Post-Corporate World
3 years ago
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subtitle: Life after capitalism
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- Capitalism is a pathology that commonly afflicts market economies in the absence of vigilant public oversight
- Since the economy internal to a corporation is a planned economy, the current consolidation of economic control under a handful of global corporations is a victory for central planning-- not the market economy
- The alternative to the new global capitalism is a global system of healthy market economies that
function as extensions of local ecosystems to meet the needs of people and communities. Read more>>
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Korten, David C - The Great Turning
3 years ago
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In The Great Turning, Korten argues that corporate consolidation of power is merely a contemporary manifestation of what he calls “Empire”: the organization of society by hierarchies of domination grounded in violent chauvinisms of race, gender, religion, nationality, language, and class. The result has been the same for 5,000 years, fortune for the few and misery for the many. Increasingly destructive of children, family, community, and nature, the way of Empire is leading to environmental and social collapse.
The Great Turning makes the case that we humans are a choicemaking species that at this defining moment faces both the opportunity and the imperative to choose our future as a conscious collective act. We can no longer deny the need nor delay our response. A mounting perfect economic storm is fast approaching. A convergence of climate change, peak oil, and the financial instability inherent in an unbalanced global trading system will bring an unraveling of the corporate-led global economy and a dramatic restructuring of every aspect of modern life.
Read more>>
In The Great Turning, Korten argues that corporate consolidation of power is merely a contemporary manifestation of what he calls “Empire”: the organization of society by hierarchies of domination grounded in violent chauvinisms of race, gender, religion, nationality, language, and class. The result has been the same for 5,000 years, fortune for the few and misery for the many. Increasingly destructive of children, family, community, and nature, the way of Empire is leading to environmental and social collapse.
The Great Turning makes the case that we humans are a choicemaking species that at this defining moment faces both the opportunity and the imperative to choose our future as a conscious collective act. We can no longer deny the need nor delay our response. A mounting perfect economic storm is fast approaching. A convergence of climate change, peak oil, and the financial instability inherent in an unbalanced global trading system will bring an unraveling of the corporate-led global economy and a dramatic restructuring of every aspect of modern life.
Read more>>
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Douthwaite, Richard - Short Curcuit
3 years ago
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: Strengthening Local Economies for Security in an Unstable World
On-line book link
This book is one of those rare volumes that will change the spirit of our age. It is both practical and inspiring. Its inspiration comes from real~life success stories - accounts of communities that have taken their future into their own hands and brought back not only jobs, but real political power and community spirit. Its practical value lies in a clear analysis of the structures that support a community's economic base, and a description of the hands-on tools needed to strengthen it. In Short Circuit, Richard Douthwaite has undertaken the most extensive survey yet of community economics in the industrialized world.
On-line book link
This book is one of those rare volumes that will change the spirit of our age. It is both practical and inspiring. Its inspiration comes from real~life success stories - accounts of communities that have taken their future into their own hands and brought back not only jobs, but real political power and community spirit. Its practical value lies in a clear analysis of the structures that support a community's economic base, and a description of the hands-on tools needed to strengthen it. In Short Circuit, Richard Douthwaite has undertaken the most extensive survey yet of community economics in the industrialized world.
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Douthwaite, Richard - The Ecology of Money
3 years ago
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On-line book link
In The Ecology of Money, Richard Douthwaite argues that just as different insects and animals have different effects on human society and the natural world, money has different effects according to its origins and purposes. Was it created to make profits for a commercial bank, or issued by a government as a form of taxation? Or was it created by its users themselves purely to facilitate their trade? And was it made in the place where it is used, or did local people have to provide goods and services to outsiders to get enough of it to trade among themselves? The Briefing shows that it will be impossible to build a just and sustainable world, unless and until money creation is democratized. Richard says that it is potentially the most important thing he has written.
In The Ecology of Money, Richard Douthwaite argues that just as different insects and animals have different effects on human society and the natural world, money has different effects according to its origins and purposes. Was it created to make profits for a commercial bank, or issued by a government as a form of taxation? Or was it created by its users themselves purely to facilitate their trade? And was it made in the place where it is used, or did local people have to provide goods and services to outsiders to get enough of it to trade among themselves? The Briefing shows that it will be impossible to build a just and sustainable world, unless and until money creation is democratized. Richard says that it is potentially the most important thing he has written.
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INTRODUCING the
ISPO Making It Happen Series
ISPO Making It Happen Series
The International Simultaneous Policy Organisation is pleased to launch the first book in its Making it Happen Series: Monetary Reform — Making it Happen!
In each of the compact, accessible volumes of the series, ISPO Founder John Bunzl teams up with a different internationally prominent expert to show how the Simultaneous Policy (SP) can stimulate global reform in a vital policy area. Each book also provides practical tools that readers can use to accelerate the implementation of SP worldwide.
You can also adapt the Simultanious policy . Read about it.
Introducing the Simultaneous PolicyImagine a world
Where values matter
Where leaders listen
Where the strongest superpower is
We the people.
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Yamaguchy Incorporated
3 years ago
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A link page shock full of downloadable books. Many from the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
Examples:
Retford Currency Society - How can paper money increase wealth? (1849)
The Anti-Bank Democrat - A newspaper published in 1842 by anti bank democrats.
Henry Carey - The Slave Trade (1853)
Free trade goes hand-in-hand with slave trade. We must place the manufacturer side by side of the agriculturist.
Edward Kellogg - A New Monetary System (1875)
Mary E. Hobart - Errors in Our Monetary System (1891)
‘The most fundamental and important truths in relation to the nature of money have always been so covered up by the technicalities of law as completely to deceive the people respecting its true character.’
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Carey, Ray - Democratic Capitalism - on-line book
3 years ago
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Subtitle: The Way to a World of Peace and Plenty
Link to homepage
One of many initiatives to make capitalism less destructive.
"In this book about democracy and capitalism, I examine the economic-political system in which all gain as each gains through participation, cooperation, trust, and sharing. With these motivations, and the private property and competition of capitalism, material scarcity can be eliminated and the quality of lives improved. I propose democratic capitalism as the rational alternative to the folly and violence that fills human history, in which the only animal capable of reason has killed more of its own species than any other creature has done. Animosities and violence will gradually end when educated citizens and trained leaders structure human affairs through the economic common purpose that improves all lives."
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One of many initiatives to make capitalism less destructive.
"In this book about democracy and capitalism, I examine the economic-political system in which all gain as each gains through participation, cooperation, trust, and sharing. With these motivations, and the private property and competition of capitalism, material scarcity can be eliminated and the quality of lives improved. I propose democratic capitalism as the rational alternative to the folly and violence that fills human history, in which the only animal capable of reason has killed more of its own species than any other creature has done. Animosities and violence will gradually end when educated citizens and trained leaders structure human affairs through the economic common purpose that improves all lives."
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Casey, Ray - Democratic Capitalism part 2 (download .doc files)
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Schumacher, EF - Buddhist Economy
3 years ago
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An article on the subject of The Middle Way of Economy.
"Right Livelihood" is one of the requirements of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path. It is clear, therefore, that there must be such a thing as Buddhist economics."
"It is in the light of both immediate experience and long term prospects that the study of Buddhist economics could be recommended even to those who believe that economic growth is more important than any spiritual or religious values. For it is not a question of choosing between "modern growth" and "traditional stagnation." It is a question of finding the right path of development, the Middle Way between materialist heedlessness and traditionalist immobility, in short, of finding "Right Livelihood."
An article on the subject of The Middle Way of Economy.
"Right Livelihood" is one of the requirements of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path. It is clear, therefore, that there must be such a thing as Buddhist economics."
"It is in the light of both immediate experience and long term prospects that the study of Buddhist economics could be recommended even to those who believe that economic growth is more important than any spiritual or religious values. For it is not a question of choosing between "modern growth" and "traditional stagnation." It is a question of finding the right path of development, the Middle Way between materialist heedlessness and traditionalist immobility, in short, of finding "Right Livelihood."
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Lietaer, Bernard
3 years ago
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Blurb and total content list. Lietaer used to work at the Belgian Central Bank but defected to activism after having realized what the money system does to us.
"Your money's value is determined by a global casino of unprecedented proportions: $2 trillion are traded per day in foreign exchange markets, 100 times more than the trading volume of all the stockmarkets of the world combined. Only 2% of these foreign exchange transactions relate to the "real" economy reflecting movements of real goods and services in the world, and 98% are purely speculative. This global casino is triggering the foreign exchange crises which shook Mexico in 1994-5, Asia in 1997 and Russia in 1998. These emergencies are the dislocation symptoms of the old Industrial Age money system. Unless some precautions are taken soon, there is at least a 50-50 chance that the next five to ten years will see a global money meltdown, the only plausible way for a global depression."
Blurb and total content list. Lietaer used to work at the Belgian Central Bank but defected to activism after having realized what the money system does to us.
"Your money's value is determined by a global casino of unprecedented proportions: $2 trillion are traded per day in foreign exchange markets, 100 times more than the trading volume of all the stockmarkets of the world combined. Only 2% of these foreign exchange transactions relate to the "real" economy reflecting movements of real goods and services in the world, and 98% are purely speculative. This global casino is triggering the foreign exchange crises which shook Mexico in 1994-5, Asia in 1997 and Russia in 1998. These emergencies are the dislocation symptoms of the old Industrial Age money system. Unless some precautions are taken soon, there is at least a 50-50 chance that the next five to ten years will see a global money meltdown, the only plausible way for a global depression."
Need a lecture in Economics?
3 years ago
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Various authorities lecturing at MIT:
http://mitworld.mit.edu/act_vfinder.php?mode=bykey&VCat=5&VHost=&x=22&y=7
Professor Michel Chossudovsky:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3117338213439292490&q=michel+chossudovsky&hl=en
Professor Jim Craven:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-345721242223597335&q=radical+blackfoot&hl=en
The Better World Shopping Guide
3 years ago
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isbn-13: 978-0-86571-576-9
isbn-10: 0-86571576-9
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by Ellis Jones
This book rates companies by several qualities from A to F in many categories.
Includes 10 best companies
10 worst companies
Corporate hero and corporate Villian in each category
It also has a list of 10 small, but really nice companies..
They have done their homework on who has bought out which company.
isbn-10: 0-86571576-9
Link to Homepage
by Ellis Jones
This book rates companies by several qualities from A to F in many categories.
Includes 10 best companies
10 worst companies
Corporate hero and corporate Villian in each category
It also has a list of 10 small, but really nice companies..
They have done their homework on who has bought out which company.
John Perkins - Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
3 years ago
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ISBN 1-57675-301-8
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions
I think this is the best book to find out how they worked it from the inside.
Link to Want to Know site info
other links are listed on this page as well, including an interview by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!
Perkins describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then taking over their economies.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions
I think this is the best book to find out how they worked it from the inside.
Link to Want to Know site info
other links are listed on this page as well, including an interview by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!
Perkins describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then taking over their economies.
Free download
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GANGS OF AMERICA - The rise of corporate power and the disabling of democracy
Corporations are the dominant force in modern life, surpassing even church and state. The largest are richer than entire nations, and courts have given these entities more rights than people. To many Americans, corporate power seems out of control. According to a Business Week/Harris poll released in September 2000, 82 percent of those surveyed agreed that “business has too much power over too many aspects of our lives.” And the recent revelations of corporate scandal and political influence have only added to such concerns.
Where did this powerful institution come from? How did it get so much power? In Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy, author Ted Nace probes the roots of corporate power, finding answers in surprising places.
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CLAWS booklist
2 years ago
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An extensive list of bookson
- Wage slavery and how to get out of the squirrel wheel
- How the Market really woks
- Education and corporate brainwashing
- Simple and sustainable livelihood
and more
- Wage slavery and how to get out of the squirrel wheel
- How the Market really woks
- Education and corporate brainwashing
- Simple and sustainable livelihood
and more
