Overview
- Promotes a democratic monetary system that increases the freedom for all under which fair wealth distribution and sustainability
- Provides a convincing method of how the financial and monetary system can be changed by the citizens themselves
- Offers alternatives to all key elements of the financial and monetary system instead of propagating only one solution or focusing only on one problem
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Process towards a New Monetary Order
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The Content – Cornerstones of a Democratic Monetary System
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Kick Off
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About this book
This book advocates a holistic reform of the current monetary and financial system dealing with the issues of money creation, central banks, loans, stock markets, tax justice, pension security and the international monetary system - “Bretton Woods II”. Its innovative approach presents several alternatives for each cornerstone, in addition to introducing a participatory democratic process whereby sovereign citizens can themselves determine the rules governing the new financial and monetary system. With “democratic money conventions” in each municipality, where the elements of this new money system are discussed and decided on in a participatory manner, and a federal money covenant which then elaborates a template for a referendum about the future “money constitution”, a true “sovereign” could progressively convert money from a financial weapon into a democratic tool.
The envisaged democratic monetary system, by providing equal opportunities for every member of society toparticipate in the development of the “new rules of the game”, turns money progressively into a public good which increases the freedom for all.
The new system furthermore drives the enhancement of constitutional and relational values such as human dignity, solidarity, justice, sustainability, or democracy. Money should serve life and should serve the common good. The “Bank for the Common Good” Project, which was initiated in Austria by the author Christian Felber, represents a practical example of his proposals.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Christian Felber is an internationally renowned speaker, lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and a contemporary dancer. Christian has authored several bestsellers: „50 Suggestions for a fairer World“, „New Values for the Economy“, „Let’s save the Euro!“, „Change everything. Creating an Economy for the Common Good“, and „Money. The new rules of the game“, which was awarded the getAbstract International Book Award 2014. Christian is a regular collaborator of the Huffington Post. He is the initiator of the „Economy for the Common Good“ and the project „B
ank for the Common Good“. Felber was born in 1972, studied Spanish, Psychology, Sociology and Political Sciences in Madrid and Vienna, where he lives and works as an independent writer.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Money - The New Rules of the Game
Authors: Christian Felber
Translated by: Jacqueline Mathewes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67352-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67351-6Published: 02 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76383-5Published: 20 February 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67352-3Published: 25 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 221
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Banking, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Business Ethics, Business Ethics, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Political Economy/Economic Systems