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Chapter 12 Basic Money Understandings: Introducing the Importance of the Role of the Community of Users In this twelfth and final post in our series on money structure and function we relate some personal thoughts on the ramifications of the knowledge we have gained concerning how money does and can work.
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Chapter 10 Basic Money Understandings: Introducing the Importance of the Role of the Community of Users In this tenth in our series on money structure and function we summarize the process and implications of interest-bearing transactions.
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Chapter 11 Basic Money Understandings: Introducing the Importance of the Role of the Community of Users In this eleventh in our series on money structure and function we begin to consider the ramifications of the knowledge we have gained concerning how money does and can work.
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A rock and a hard place -- Our money system in crisis: The Greece and Cyprus credit crises as prototypes Our money system is in trouble. it has to grow, but it can't continue to grow. The situation in Greece and the experience in Cyprus are examples of how things are going to go. Lets start thinking about alternatives.

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A response to "Facilitating a Disruptive Emergence To Replace the Existing Elite System Running the Planet by Rob Kall" Rob Kall speaks of disruptive emergence. Continuing that train of thought leads to possible directions and experiments.

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Chapter 5 Basic Money Understandings: Introducing the Importance of the Role of the Community of Users In this fifth of our series on money basics we will discuss the process of issuing bank authority money. Our discussion will relate to a group bank authority instead of one unitary banking authority, as that is the kind of system that we have today.
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Seigniorage, Its relation to Justice, Trust and Commitment Seigniorage is something that usually only policy wonks talk about, but if we want to discuss money as a justice issue, it is a pivotal concept that needs a more general understanding. What we propose to do is go beyond the standard definition to describe and discuss the function of seigniorage in trade. We will find that it functions in very different ways, according to the way money is organized.

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Chapter 8 Basic Money Understandings: Introducing the Importance of the Role of the Community of Users In this seventh in our series on money basics we review the results that accumulate in practice from the structure described in the last posts. We offer the implications of both private bank and government based top down money systems.
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Chapter 7 Basic Money Understandings: Introducing the Importance of the Role of the Community of Users In this seventh in our series on money basics we will review the results that accumulate in practice from the structure described in the last posts. We offer the following implications of both private bank and government based top down money systems
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Chapter 6 Basic Money Understandings: Introducing the Importance of the Role of the Community of Users In this sixth in our series on money basics we will discuss government authority money issuance, and its effects on the economy.
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Democratic Network Money: Commons Money that Works for Us, Instead of Us Working for It, Part 1 This article is the first in a series that will define money, and then look at the different ways that it can be organized. In this first installment we will define money and describe a simple system that clarifies money operation.
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Chapter 1 Basic Money Understandings: Introducing the Importance of the Role of the Community of Users This is the first in a series of twelve articles that are an attempt to gain a more complete understanding of how our money works. It has been found that the community of users of a money system has an important role in money creation and operation. Acknowledging this role, we will study how money currently works, and can otherwise, work, covering bottom-up (mutual) as well as top-down (authority-based) money systems.
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The Monetary Cliff: Its the Driver behind Deficits and the Fiscal Cliff - Rethinking our Centralized Fiat Money System We are told that money is such a complex issue that it isn't understandable by the layman. We disagree and describe the rules of money, and their practical and moral implications, including money's instability and the immanent monetary cliff. This understanding makes it possible to consider alternative money rules that serve the market better, and that promote an economy that is stable, just, resilient, and democratic.

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Part 2, Democratic Network Money: Commons Money that Works for Us, Instead of Us Working for It In the first installment of this series we described simple money. In this second article we will talk about the kinds of relationships that this system engenders, and how it understands money capital.
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Chapter 9 Basic Money Understandings: Introducing the Importance of the Role of the Community of Users In this ninth post in this series on money basics we will discuss the nuts and bolts of interest transactions
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Chapter 3 Basic Money Understandings: Introducing the Importance of the Role of the Community of Users With this third post in our series on money structure and function we begin the analysis of top down authority money. In this post we will start with some history. Then we will define and describe the new functional players involved in the money creation/use universe. Then in future posts we will be able to use double entry accounting to describe authority money operation.
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Chapter 2 Basic Money Understandings: Introducing the Importance of the Role of the Community of Users In this, our second post on basic money understandings, we will get into the nuts and bolts of bottom up operation, and the results of its use. As we proceed we will find that this organization is pivotal to the understanding of all fiat money.
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Chapter 4 Basic Money Understandings: Introducing the Importance of the Role of the Community of Users In this fourth in the series on money basics we will begin to address the details of top-down money. We start with money authorization and creation.
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Part 6, Democratic Network Money: Commons Money that Works for Us, Instead of Us Working for It In this final article of the series we summarize the first five articles, and discuss moving from our present money system to the use of more just and resilient money. Following the edict that we don't concentrate on what is wrong, but on creating something that serves those of us who use it, and promotes providing what we need and want, instead of profit, we create a new system, and let the old one go its own way.
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Part 4, Democratic Network Money: Commons Money that Works for Us, Instead of Us Working for It Now we turn our attention to alternatives to our present money that are currently being considered.
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Part 3, Democratic Network Money: Commons Money that Works for Us, Instead of Us Working for It In this third article of our series we will address the present money system that we live under. The reader will see how its structure leads to very different results than the structure of Simple Money.
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Part 5, Democratic Network Money: Commons Money that Works for Us, Instead of Us Working for It Natural capital and human capital are not directly a part of the money system, but they are a significant part of what money is used to value, so they need to be considered in the discussion of money.
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A New Perspective on Money and Economy Provisioning all of the users of money needs to be the prime directive of the monetary system, rather than profit, as is currently the case. The institution of interest needs to be done away with.