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From the Wikipedia: "The Strauss–Howe generational theory, also known as the Fourth Turning theory or simply the Fourth Turning, which was created by authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, describes a theorized recurring generation cycle in American history. According to the theory, historical events are associated with recurring generational ...
Bio. "Charlotte Hess is Associate Dean for Research, Collections and Scholarly Communication at Syracuse University Library. Before coming to Syracuse, New York in August 2008, Hess was at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University where she was a researcher and the director of the Digital Library of the Commons ...
Description. "A well-researched and fascinating profile of Bram Cohen, the writer of the most disruptive technology of the period, the BitTorrent code. The profile outlines his past, his Asperger syndrome, and why the Moving Picture Association is not after him, despite Bittorrent movie downloads costing them 4% of total revenue.
2021年10月22日 · What Illich began to notice in the 1980’s was that this instrumental logic no longer obtained. A new age had begun in which people were no longer distinct from the systems in which they took part. They had been, he supposed, “swallowed by the system.”. He began to speak of the emergence of an “age of systems” or, alternately, of “an ...
- Background
- Definition
- The Terra Characteristics
- Practical Operations of The Terra
- Discussion
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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
2021年10月4日 · The Viconian cycle consists of three recurring phases: (1) The Theocratic or Divine Age, represented in primitive society by the family life of the cave, to which the thunderous voice of God has driven mankind; (2) The Aristocratic or Heroic Age, characterized by incessant conflict between the ruling patricians and their subject plebeians; (3 ...
Jan Krikke: "In the early 1960s, Lawrence Taub dropped out of Harvard Law School to go “on the road.”. He lived in Scandanavia and France before making his way to India. In Bihar State, he attended a lecture at Sarkar’s Ananda Marga Center, where he first heard about the orthodox version of the Varna prophecy.
