Economics - United Diversity (Page 2)

Capitalism – A love story

Go Michael! Michael Moore does it again. He’s like the little boy who dares to tell us “the emperor is wearing no clothes”. “It’s a crime story. But it’s also a war story about class warfare. And a vampire movie, with the upper 1 percent feeding off

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Guest Post by David Cohn: Lessons in Crowdfunding

Photo by ThinkPanama [https://www.flickr.com/photos/23065375@N05/2247354638/] Almost ten months ago I launched Spot.Us via a Knight Foundation grant [https://newschallenge.org/winner/2008/spot-us] which is trying to pioneer “community funded reporting,” the act of distributing the cost of hiring an investigative journalist. In

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Walkable Neighborhoods Are Worth More

A new study shows that people will pay more for walkable neighborhoods. You may have already heard of Walk Score [https://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008231.html] — an endlessly entertaining Internet tool that lets people discover how pedestrian-friendly their neighborhood is. Walk Score ranks neighborhood “walkability” based on the mix

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A 'new' currency

In an imploding global economy, we are being challenged to imagine different ways of being and ‘new’ structures and means of exchange, in order to meet our essential human needs within society. If you are struggling to imagine how things could be different, take a breath, sit back, relax and

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Definancialisation, Deglobalisation, Relocalisation [via feedly]

This talk was presented at The New Emergency Conference [https://www.thenewemergency.org/] in Dublin, on June 11, 2009. [https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-b-kpMH_7eM/SjeuEycdgrI/AAAAAAAABEU/IZmtg84KznE/s1600-h/slide1.png] 1. Good morning. The title of this talk is a bit of a mouthful, but what I want

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Latin America’s Quiet Monetary Reform

INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN URUGUAY, APRIL 2009 The Executive Power prepares details for a new system of payment which will be adopted to stimulate micro and small businesses. In two months, the government will release a new way of payment, a transaction network, which will allow micro and

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Dee Hock's MiniMaxims

I like Mamading [https://evangineer.agoraworx.com/blog/entries.html]‘s quotes [https://quotessence.agoraworx.com/] website Quotessence [https://quotessence.agoraworx.com/]. I’ve already pointed him at Dancing with Systems [https://uniteddiversity.com/dancing-with-systems/] and Permaculture Principles [https://uniteddiversity.com/permaculture-principles/], encouraging him to include the wisdom they contain.

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In Debt We Trust

In America’s earliest days, there were barn-raising parties in which neighbors helped each other build up their farms. Today, in some churches, there are debt liquidation revivals in which parishioners chip in to free each other from growing credit card debts that are driving American families to bankruptcy and

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What Would Jesus Buy?

An examination of the commercialization of Christmas in America while following Reverend Billy [https://www.revbilly.com/] and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse (the end of humankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt.) The film

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Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve

This is part 3 of the original Zeitgeist Movie [https://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/] (see some of my thoughts on that here [https://uniteddiversity.com/zeitgeist-addendum/]), all about money [https://uniteddiversity.com/money/], banking [https://uniteddiversity.com/tag/banking/] and the Federal Reserve in the US.

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The Money Masters

This very long (215 minutes) money [https://uniteddiversity.com/money/] documentary has lots of interesting history in it about the battle over the control of money and banking in the US. If I remember rightly the presenter proposes going back to the gold standard, but whilst that might be better

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The Matrix - A Poem by Paradox

I know Paradox from the London party scene. He’s a good chap 🙂 Here is a great poem he wrote about money [https://uniteddiversity.com/money/] and banking [https://uniteddiversity.com/tag/banking/]… The Matrix [https://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=10874821]

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Money

Here you will find links to all the great money resources on this site 🙂 Basic Info: * Money Today [https://uniteddiversity.com/money-today/] * A Brief History of Money [https://uniteddiversity.com/a-brief-history-of-money/] Money Books: * Money Books [https://uniteddiversity.com/money-books/] * More money books [https://uniteddiversity.com/more-money-books/] * see also Money downloads

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Money downloads

Linked from this page are a whole bunch of useful online documents and downloads related to money [https://uniteddiversity.com/money/]: Introductory reading * Ecology of Money [https://www.feasta.org/documents/moneyecology/contents.htm] and Short Circuit [https://www.feasta.org/documents/shortcircuit/contents.html] by Richard Douthwaite [https://en.

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A Brief History of Money

Contrary to popular belief, when banks make loans, they are not lending out money that people have deposited with them, but are instead creating completely new money, out of nothing. Absurd as this may seem, the fact is that 97% of our current money supply is created in this way

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Money Today

I wrote this a while back on the old united diversity wiki [https://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/] as a simple (as in simplified) introduction to how money works today: How money works today. How money works today is completely ludicrous. It pits people against each other and guarantees that the rich

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More money books

A while back I posted Money Books [https://uniteddiversity.com/money-books/], a collection of my favourite books all about money. Now, with the global economy struggling on all sides with economic collapse, climate change and peak oil very much beginning to kick in, I thought I share a few more

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Google 10 to the power 100

I just submitted my application to Google’s 10 to the power 100 [https://www.project10tothe100.com] project to identify projects which would impact on the greatest number of people (in the opinion of the web-oriented voters). Your idea’s name (maximum 50 characters): At last, local money support for

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Selling Local money

Perhaps you have heard of LETS, timebanks, or other community projects in which arbitrary currencies are created? Well, there is now a suite of modules [https://marketplace.matslats.net] to support communities trading in local money?

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Money Books

After our last Open Coin [https://opencoin.org] meeting George Walker [https://www.ccls.edu/staff/walker.html] took us into his office to continue chatting. He is a fascinating chap, check out his CV [https://www.ccls.edu/documents/staff/walker.pdf] (.pdf). In the first OpenCoin meeting he

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Some of my favourite websites

United Diversity is all about creating new land, money and media systems. Here are some existing examples of the kind of projects we’re talking about: Land https://ecologicalland.coop/ https://openfarmtech.org/ https://www.energyfarms.net/ https://cityrepair.org/ https://thevillage.ie https://lammas.org.uk/ https://www.gloucestershirelandforpeople.

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Convergence 13: Transition Strategies

This looks set to be an amazing event… Cultivate Update cultivate your self | community | world Friday 22nd Feb 2008 Convergence 13: Transition Strategies Post Carbon Cities, Transition Towns and Eco-Villages 3rd to the 7th of April 2008 | Festival Pass: €120 until March 10th (€150 thereafter) Bookings 01 674 5773 or

Agriculture

A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash

This is one of the best peak oil movies. A must see documentary.

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Money as Debt

Widespread debt slavery created by an insane banking system is undoubtedly one of the biggest problems we all face. This video animation, Money as Debt [https://www.moneyasdebt.net/] by Paul Grignon [https://www.moneyasdebt.net/], is undoubtedly one the most important films ever made. If you don’t yet

Activism

It's the End of the World as We know it and I feel FINE #23

Via Submedia [https://submedia.tv] I love this series and this is one of the best episodes yet! 🙂 This Week 1. Trillionaire Debt 2. Almost $100 3. PetroChina 4. Food Riots 5. Buy Nothing Day 6. No Borders Camp 7. R.A.T.M. 8. Ron Paul, who cares 9.