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37 money we will thus be able to restore our healthy planet. G iven the will and the right circumstances this could happen within a generation, leading to a much brighter future for our children.
1 Ralph Chaplin Bars and Shadows. 2 As reported by Bernard Lietaer to the <strong>Money</strong> Summit of Oct 2003 Designer of the Euro to Unveil New Currency at Future of <strong>Money</strong> Summit. Media advisory. At www.futureofmoneysummit.com/pr-terra.php 3 The first New Zealand financial stability report is at www.rbnz.govt.nz/banking/fsr_oct2004.pdf 4 Shann Turnbull Reinventing Central Banks by Shann Turnbull http://www.lightparty.com/Economic/Banks.html 5 See www.paecon.net, the website of the Post-autistic Economics Network, for more information 6 Half the world's workers living below US$2 a day poverty line. ILO says new policies for promoting productivity growth and decent jobs could improve outlook for working poor Geneva. ILO news. 7 Dec 2004 Found at http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2004/54.htm 7 For a description of a September 2004 conference in Brazil, see http://www.alliance21.org/en/proposals/summaries/money.htm National meeting of solidaritybased barter groups in Brazil: towards a better future by Heloisa Primavera.
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4 international trade in currencies
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6 The data on New Zealand mortgage
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8 The scheme has had unintended soc
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10 Household loans (1978-2000) 90 8
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12 City Council in mid2000 review
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14 Similarly, mortgages are classif
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16 And it is not just bank assets t
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18 Keeping the Secret But surely if
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20 Deputy Prime Minister. I asked h
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22 Individuals have to compete with
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24 instability. This speculation is
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51 cared for. The cancerous parts o
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53 constraints. What we need are so
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55 accelerating. Eighty per cent of
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57 waters to draw down. They also s
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59 As far back as 1987, a UN World
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61 The State of New Zealand Since 1
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63 Health and Disability Like other
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65 Low skilled jobs have largely di
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67 • One in two people in Ireland
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1 4 Unhealthy Globalisation The Sir
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3 Although the process of corporate
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5 globalisation is transnational ca
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7 Many others have spoken of invisi
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9 currencies to the US dollar. The
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11 policies of these nations in ret
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13 000). Round Tables The original
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15 annual meeting in the small ski
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17 When an enemy is powerful and ce
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19 In January 2001, protesters demo
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78 Every day we hear politicians, c
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82 billion, equivalent to 39 per ce
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86 increase. And when jobs are crea
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88 rather than adding them to the w
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92 placed at the top of the lists.
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88 6 Facing the Critics Through the
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90 the interestbased system, the
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92 good or fair or sustainable. An
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94 Certainly there are other ways o
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96 landlord who charges you rent al
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98 believe that credit to be valuab
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100 If interest rates were zero the
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102 It is quite fair that banks sho
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2 free money before, as we shall se
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4 In precolonial times, Maori tri
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6 In Maori tribes, the gift society
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9 What Gives Money its Value? To he
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11 accept money as payment, we unco
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13 goes still further and calls mon
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15 Spanish and Dutch coins from ove
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17 claimed that the UK’s financia
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19 Today, the Reserve Bank retains
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2 living systems. Finally, it discu
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4 If our species is to survive, a n
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6 with its own currencies, the patt
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8 While it is possible for each tea
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10 addiction, chronic illness and i
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12 4. Human economies can and shoul
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14 furniture transported at great c
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16 down and money has been moved ar
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18 areas? Is there a continuing dyn
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22 be a tension between the two. Th
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24 democracy at the local governmen
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26 as the individual organs of the
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2 The democratisation of national c
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4 her children who were fed by its
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6 happened - the imposition of a co
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8 existed and thrived for thousands
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10 In addition, by focusing on loca
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12 there is no hierarchy. As we saw
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2 Michael Linton, David Weston and
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4 could. He described them as ‘a
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6 resorts may find themselves amass
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8 problems. Since then, the system
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10 forms. In version 1, operating u
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12 All the following examples of co
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14 sent a researcher to check the w
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16 Salt Spring Island Dollars Salt
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18 British Columbia Financial Insti
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20 partnership. This trend has spre
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22 traditional rice planting and ha
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24 The city solicitor put the bigge
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2 Enz, who were supporters of the f
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4 As with WIR, businesses are regis
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6 A significant innovation in New Z
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8 granting temporary credit where t
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10 requiring transactions to be 100
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12 participants of the scheme were
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14 Ideology of the Wirtshaftsring
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255 are already in possession of it
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257 that all hoards of money would
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259 sophisticated that Egypt became
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261 Austria, for a period of 14 mon
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263 US$260 million worth of work in
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265 Saving will become impossible.
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267 law professor in Italy. Profess
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269 The Chiemgauer 21 In early 2002
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271 Currency to Support Waldorf Sch
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20 It started in 1989 when Frank To
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22 Privately Issued Fiat Currencies
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24 The Note Corporation itself then
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26 andahalf years, A$3.5 millio
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2 of agricultural and mining produc
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4 such resource as fossil fuel, sin
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6 • The demurrage charge would re
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1 15 Lessons Learnt From Currencies
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3 Regardless of whether the transac
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5 payment of taxes. When the mayor
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7 within that global economy we mus
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9 Money can also be spent into exis
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11 Huber and James Robertson, 6 it
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13 apparently no one spread rumours
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15 One of the weaknesses of local c
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17 example (see page 000), the demu
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19 trading. We therefore need decen
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23 In Even if the Reserve Bank deci
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25 possibilities for reforming our
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27 1905. 2 Michael Reddell of the R
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2 Taxation Policies Before I discus
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14 Ltd, 1879. 3 Henry George, Socia
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18 Zealand Post was that there was
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Page 389 and 390: 37 Allison Stinson, ‘Developments
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Page 393 and 394: 25 Viviane Forrester, The Economic
Page 395 and 396: 2 Michael Rowbotham, The Grip of De
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Page 399 and 400: 18 The Independent, 21 July 1999. 1
Page 401 and 402: 14 Wolfgang Rosenberg, Money in New
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Page 405 and 406: 11 Bernard Lietaer, ‘The Future o
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Page 417 and 418: 140 Appendix 2: Useful Websites Gen
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Page 423 and 424: 146 www.earthsharing.org.au An Aust
Page 425 and 426: 148 Email: bryank@earthsharing.org.
Page 427 and 428: Bibliography 1 Books and Chapters i
Page 429 and 430: 3 Douthwaite, Richard, The Ecology
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7 Mitchell, Ralph A., and Shafer, N
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9 Cobb, Clifford, ‘Displacing Bad
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Turnbull, Shann, ‘Why Reducing Ta
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The Guardian (UKbased daily) The
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1 Glossary Barter The direct exchan
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3 shared land ownership. Koha The M
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