How to Dismantle an Empire (A 2020 Vision: the Economics of Community)

Coraggio, Tereza

ISBN 10: 1733347607 / ISBN 13: 9781733347600

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Synopsis:

How to Dismantle an Empire is a people’s history of money. Going back 3500 years and traveling around the world, it shows the tricks that have trapped us into making the rich richer. Using humor and everyday logic, along with deep research, it exposes the lies by which we're forced to live. Using metaphor and storytelling, it invites us to think differently. Using the wisdom of indigenous rebels, regenerative ranchers, and sci-fi visionaries, it imagines what could be and outlines the steps to get there.

This book holds one consistent belief: people are inherently good and when they behave badly, systems are to blame. With just three system changes, we can care for the people, places, and planet that have been entrusted to us. Each chapter proposes paradigm shifts, defines key terms, and presents readers with questions designed to challenge and transform their thinking. For instance:

• Bigger is better for empire but smaller supports self-governance. When the US formed, the world had 18,000 nations—today there are fewer than 200 and a dozen control all the rest.
• Benjamin Franklin invented the colonial currency that ended poverty and spread prosperity … until British bankers outlawed it. This, not a tax on tea, sparked the Revolutionary War.
• Money is a means of organizing labor in the interests of whoever issues it. Governments don’t have the money for services or projects, so who does issue it and control our labor?

Tereza Coraggio believes that communities have an inherent ability to solve their own problems and meet their own needs. She introduces new ways to think about old problems, new strategies to find common ground, and new worlds that we can dream together. Pandemics reveal that systems we thought could never change can crumble at the drop of a Monopoly man’s hat. The hat has dropped; it’s time to run with it.

Here is an original, risk-taking book that climbed inside this reader’s head and rearranged what I thought I knew, throwing out junk to make space for brilliant, practical, hopeful propositions for a world that just might be possible.
—Donna Haraway, author of Staying With the Trouble

Bibliographic Details

Title: How to Dismantle an Empire (A 2020 Vision: ...
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New