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As soon as push comes to shove, and the liberal-democratic societies are threatened by total war, they approximate central planning in their production methods as closely as their political systems allow. Capitalist firms rely on high-level central planning all the time in the modern economy.
Discussion. "Swiss Re Institute has issued the Climate Economics Index a stress-tests analysis on how climate risks will impact 48 countries representing 90% of the world economy and ranks their overall climate resilience. It shows all countries will be affected, but some are more vulnerable than others. Expected global GDP impact by 2050 under ...
Brian Loudon: "The PatVal-EU project which surveyed European inventors published in 2005 gives an interesting overview of the value and ownership of patents in the EU. The headline results from their research are interesting, the vast majority of named inventors, around 90% work for an organisation and the self-employed were less than 8%. The ...
- Background
- Definition
- The Terra Characteristics
- Practical Operations of The Terra
- Discussion
- More Information
Sanjay Perera: "According to Lietaer in his influential The Future of Money, there is a four-tiered monetary system for the future. People and businesses will routinely and comfortably deal in this multiple currency system, just as we today use all kinds of value cards, air miles, vouchers, credit and debit cards and virtual currencies in the cours...
Lietaer excerpts from the THE TERRA TRC WHITE PAPER. Bernard Lietaer, 2004. Bernard Lietaer: "The Terra is a complementary, privately issued, demurrage-charged, Trade Reference Currency, that is backed by an inflation-resistant, standardized basket of the dozen most important commodities and services in the global market.
Complementary Currency.The Terra is designed as a complementary currency operating in parallel with national currencies. Therefore, everything that exists today as monetary and financial products or practices continues to exist. The Terra mechanism is only one additional option available for those international economic actors who voluntarily choos...
The following scenario and accompanying diagram walks through the key elements that are involved in the Terra mechanism--from the creation of Terras to their final cash-in. (1). The Terra Creation Process. (1a.) Excess Inventory Sale.The process whereby the Terra Trade Reference Currency is created begins with the sale of some excess commodity inve...
BENEFITS OF THE TERRA
Bernard Lietaer: The Terra Initiative addresses each of the major economic and financial concerns mentioned earlier, and offers both general benefits and specific benefits to particular interest groups. General and specific benefits will be examined next, followed by an analysis differentiating the Terra from all other proposals and initiatives aimed at redressing present monetary concerns. General Benefits of the Terra The Terra mechanism, by virtue of its demurrage charge and being inflatio...
Differences with Earlier Proposals
Bernard Lietaer: "The Terra is a commodity-basket currency. For more than a century, there have been several proposals for commodity-basket currencies by a series of well-known economists. The main reason why they have not been implemented is not due to a technical fault of the concept, but rather because they were aiming at replacing the conventional money system. Such replacement would have put in jeopardy powerful vested interests. This is not the case with the Terra proposal. On the contr...
For those interested in keeping informed on the developments of the Terra Initiative, please consult www.terratrc.org.For more information contact: bernard@accessfoundation.org
That’s not too high. It implies that about 36% of all the variation in earnings can be predicted by looking at parents. In the Scandinavian countries, where they try harder to promote social mobility, the correlation is about .2, which means parental earnings can only
2016年12月23日 · Political Turbulence reveals that, in fact, most attempts at collective action online do not succeed, but some give rise to huge mobilizations—even revolutions. Drawing on large-scale data generated from the Internet and real-world events, this book shows how mobilizations that succeed are unpredictable, unstable, and often unsustainable.
Discussion. The Public-Commons Partnership is a concept proposed by Tommaso Fattori, Italian commons activist, to replace the concepts of: - public-private partnership and public-public partnership. Tommaso Fattori: "The field of Commons can be for the most part identified with a public but not-state arena, in which the actions of the ...
