simple exchange economy. Examining how money enters, circulates, and exits an economy, they consider the nature of trading … systems and the role of government authority in the exchange of consumer goods for storable money; exchanges made with durable … declare bankruptcy; and the distinctions between individuals who lend their own money, and financiers, who lend others’ …

This book advocates a holistic reform of the current monetary and financial system dealing with the issues of money … 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 …