Future of Money : A New Way to Create Wealth, Work, and a Wiser World

B.A. Lietaer

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Today’s financial system is seen by the most as having a fixed size. Bernard A. Litaer challenges this perspective by showing that there were different economic systems in history and that our present system has arisen from a tacit and problematic collective acceptance. He sees the future in the development of complementary currencies. He explains which money is necessary for which needs and how we can commonly create it. Money only exists because of trust — where trust has been destroyed, money is loosing its value; chaos and poverty are sad consequences. Lietaer has written an exciting and informative book for anyone who is aware of economic problems, from interested laymen to bankers.Das Geld- und Finanzsystem, wie wir es heute kennen,wird von den meisten als feste Grösse, ja als gottgegeben betrachtet. Bernard A. Lietaer zeigt dagegen, dass es im Laufe der Geschichte ganz andere Systeme gegeben hat und unsere derzeitige Finanzordnung einer stillschweigenden — inzwischen höchst problematischen — kollektiven Übereinkunft entspringt. Die Zukunft sieht er in der Entwicklung von komplementären Währungen. Er erläutert, welches Geld wir für welche Aufgabe benötigen und wie wir es gemeinsam erschaffen können. Denn Geld besteht nur aufgrund von Vertrauen. Wo dieses Vertrauen zerstört wird, verliert Geld seinen Wert; Chaos und Armut sind die traurigen Folgen. Lietaer hat ein ebenso spannendes wie informatives “Enthüllungsbuch“ geschrieben, das sich vom interessierten Laien überneugierige Banker an alle wendet, die sich der Geldproblematik bewusst sind.

About the Author: Bernard Lietaer has spent 25 years working in different areas of the money system. He worked on the creation of the single European currency and was named the world's top currency trader by Business Week in 1989 (making $22m in three years). He was Professor of International Finance at the University of Louvain, Belgium, and a Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resources at the University of California, Berkeley. His vast range of experience and knowledge of global money systems has made him one of the world's foremost financial visionaries.

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Title: Future of Money : A New Way to Create Wealth...
Publisher: Century
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: hardcover
Condition: As New

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