THE FUTURE OF MONEY Bernard A. Lietaer - library.uniteddiversity ...

Both 'Mr Yamada's Retirement Plan' and 'A World in Balance' are
the result of the sufficient availability of stable, Yin currencies.
The 'Bechtel Board Resolution' is the result of the use of a
demurrage- charged Global Reference Currency as a standard
accounting and planning tool by major global corporations.
Finally, 'Your Grandniece's China Trip' describes a world in which
the Integral Economy, involving both Yin and Yang type currencies
in appropriate balance, is taken for granted.
An Integral Economy would see these various currencies operate in
ways complementary for each other. It would improve the quality of
life even for those who choose to keep strictly to traditional industrial
age 'jobs'. It would encourage the attitudes that Robert D. Haas, the
CEO of Levi Strauss, forecasts: 'The most visible differences between
the corporation of the future and its present-day counterpart will not
be the products they make or the equipment they use, but who will
be working, why they will be working, and what work will mean to
them.'
The image that comes to mind is that during the Industrial Age we
have become accustomed to a monetary toolbox with one single tool:
a screwdriver. Now, screwdrivers are great, even the only way to go,
if and only if you are dealing with screws. However, for those of us
who want to paint, the screwdriver becomes a rather clumsy tool. It
may be possible to paint with a screwdriver, but the results are not
going to be too convincing. When we see, for example, non-profit
organisations - each trying to bring good things to society tearing
each other apart to get scarce competitive money, they are really
trying to paint with a screwdriver. The same image applies when we
try to develop social capital such as taking care of children and the
elderly exclusively with Yang type currency.