There’s a skype chat I’m on that discusses community currencies, that recently was trying to find “the ultimate elevator pitch” for community currencies. This is a very reasonable request as all of us working in this area are frequently asked to describe what we are up to succinctly. Here’s my post to that chat in […]
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The Economics of Innocent Fraud, John Kenneth Galbraith, 2004
You can read this short book in an hour, but you’ll be thinking about it for much longer. Galbraith, a man of impeccable credentials, points out some of the unspoken (by mainstream culture) truths of our times: “The free-market system” is the meaningless replacement term for what capitalism has become, and what should truthfully be […]