Een ander soort geld: helpt economie, milieu en euro
Toxopeus, Helen / Arkerl, Henk van
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- Author
- Toxopeus, Helen / Arkerl, Henk van
- Publisher
- Vonk Uitgevers
- ISBN
- 9789062245314
- Language
- Dutch
- Condition notes
- 2014, 256 pp, hardback, used
- Category
- Textbooks › Economy
About this book
Is it possible to have a different kind of money that leads to a fairer, more effective and more sustainable society? Two committed individuals from completely different backgrounds strike up a conversation. Worlds collide. One is a trained economist who has just resigned from her job at a bank. The other is responsible for the innovative trading and monetary systems that the Social Trade Organisation (STRO) is testing in various parts of the world. The former banker doubts whether alternatives to the current monetary system exist. Yet her curiosity gets the better of her scepticism, and she delves into STRO’s work. She is asked to critically re-examine numerous established notions about money and the economy.This book is surprising: it explores speculation as the primary function of money; and how ICT innovations threaten the banks’ monopoly far more fundamentally than Bitcoin does.In a separate section of the book, Henk van Arkel describes the current state of affairs regarding ‘the other money’, which STRO is now implementing together with its partners across Europe. This is already taking place in Bristol, Catalonia, Lombardy and Sardinia. These Social Trade Credit Circuits are being implemented with support from the EU. It is money that actually works during a crisis! This spring, STRO won the E-Pay Software Award from the international payments industry in Las Vegas with its Cyclos4Pro software and received the first prize of $50,000 in the Payment Next Zone of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for poverty alleviation.Read in this book how, with your help and the use of IT innovations, an alternative can also be realised in the Netherlands to the dead end of the banks and financial markets. This will be a historic event. For never before have there been two types of money at the same time.’‘And Another Kind of Money’ is a book for everyone, free from technical jargon and complicated nonsense. Its conversational style makes it very easy to understand. It is for anyone who wants to know the truth about the euro, the crisis and what can be done about it. It presents a completely original perspective based on ideas tested in practice. It has become a book offering a fresh take on what money actually is, how it ‘works’ both to our advantage and to our disadvantage; and why a second currency is useful.Helen Toxopeus studied economics, worked for the executive board at ABN AMRO, resigned from her job there, wrote ‘An Exploration of Our Monetary System’ for Oxfam-Novib in 2012, and subsequently wrote this book. She is currently working towards her PhD at the Erasmus School of Economics. Henk van Arkel is director of the Social Trade Organisation (STRO) in Utrecht. For the past twenty years, he has been developing alternative forms of money, mainly in Latin America and now primarily in Southern Europe, and speaks on the subject at international conferences.