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Life, money and illusion : living on Earth as if we want to stay /
In recent years, unchecked growth has brought us to the brink of economic and environmental collapse. Life, Money & Illusion was inspired by the dilemma of having an economic structure that has to grow to remain healthy, while facing the finite limits of our planet. This revised and updated edit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gabriola Island, BC, Canada : Lanark, ON, Canada :
New Society Publishers ; Seven Generations Publishing,
[2009]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Without vision, the people perish
- 2. Vision for the 21st century
- 3. Life : how it thrives
- 4. Problems with life : human impacts on a full planet
- 5. Mutual provision : money, markets, and an orderly world
- 6. Magnitude and abstraction : when we grow very large
- Problems with our market economy
- 7. Where value is neglected
- 8. Where value is overstated
- 9. Money : its creation, management and growth
- 10. The monopoly end game
- Economic solutions
- 11. First steps
- 12. Practical changes
- 13. Monetary reform
- Transformation
- 14. Cultural foundations : working together as societies
- 15. How to get there from here : a question of direction
- 16. A crack in the road : motor culture
- 17. What will become of us?
- Afterword : looking back to the present
- Appendix : tapping our collective potential
- Recommended reading
- Index
- About the author.