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Alex Burrett

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Description:Money PuppetsA proposal for ending the tyranny of currency moneyThe dominance of currency moneyMany agree with John Kander & Fred “Money makes the world go around.” It dominates individual life experiences, shapes politics, funds wars, alters geography and affects climate.Although we rely on money to manage our lives and economies, this medium of exchange is not without fault. It is the substance of inequality and fiscal failure. It is the essence of individual and social afflictions. In Laws Book V, Plato proposed a dual currency to mitigate negative impacts of a single currency. Many other thinkers have commented on the harm it does.Why do we let money hurt us? We abide it because it has taken us from the windmill to the windfarm. We abide it because we’ve been unable to deliver, and disinterested in, change.Alex Burrett’s non-fiction work ‘Money Puppets’ investigates why we’ve put up with injurious currency money for over 2,500 years. To answer this conundrum, it reflects on the history, functions and impacts of various forms of money. It compares these forms by considering features such as the essence of trust behind them and their transportability. This analysis provides a fresh perspective on the nature of currency money.The gift economyFor over 98% of human history, people built social connectedness when they exchanged things. Although the ‘gift economy’ still partially functions in many places to supplement currency-facilitated exchange – and wholly within some remote, isolated cultures – this once ubiquitous means of exchanging value has largely vanished.Heritage of currency moneyCurrency money first appeared around 600 BCE in three unconnected parts of the Anatolia, China, Mesoamerica. It presented significant advantages over the gift economy and the two intermediary exchange media (commodity money and precious metals). These advantages were crossed cultural boundaries; almost permanent life-expectancy; easily determined value; relatively simple transportation and storage; no requirement for ongoing third-party oversight.The benefits delivered by currency money saw, within two hundred years, its creation and use spread around the Eastern Mediterranean, near East and China. In the following two centuries, coinage spread as far as India (helped by Alexander the Great), Rome and Central Europe.Impact of currency moneyCurrency money has different social and psychological impacts to its predecessors. Social connections were created during the gift economy era because trust was built during the exchange process.“If friends make gifts, gifts make friends.” – Marshall Sahlins, ‘Stone Age Economics’.Currency money, however, diverts trust from between the giver and receiver to the currency itself. We learned to trust money rather than one another. It’s no coincidence that major currencies bear words such as “trust” and “promise” or the signature of a national financial figure who we should trust.Beyond diverting trust away from fellow citizens, there are numerous other negative impacts of currency the separation of extended families (with further ramifications such as the need to save for independent retirement); wealth inequality; unemployment; social breakdown.But we accept the disadvantages of currency money because it seems to underwrite the best of all possible worlds. (A dominant sentiment in the 18th century to explain human suffering.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Money Puppets: A proposal for ending the hegemony of currency money.. To get started finding Money Puppets: A proposal for ending the hegemony of currency money., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Money PuppetsA proposal for ending the tyranny of currency moneyThe dominance of currency moneyMany agree with John Kander & Fred “Money makes the world go around.” It dominates individual life experiences, shapes politics, funds wars, alters geography and affects climate.Although we rely on money to manage our lives and economies, this medium of exchange is not without fault. It is the substance of inequality and fiscal failure. It is the essence of individual and social afflictions. In Laws Book V, Plato proposed a dual currency to mitigate negative impacts of a single currency. Many other thinkers have commented on the harm it does.Why do we let money hurt us? We abide it because it has taken us from the windmill to the windfarm. We abide it because we’ve been unable to deliver, and disinterested in, change.Alex Burrett’s non-fiction work ‘Money Puppets’ investigates why we’ve put up with injurious currency money for over 2,500 years. To answer this conundrum, it reflects on the history, functions and impacts of various forms of money. It compares these forms by considering features such as the essence of trust behind them and their transportability. This analysis provides a fresh perspective on the nature of currency money.The gift economyFor over 98% of human history, people built social connectedness when they exchanged things. Although the ‘gift economy’ still partially functions in many places to supplement currency-facilitated exchange – and wholly within some remote, isolated cultures – this once ubiquitous means of exchanging value has largely vanished.Heritage of currency moneyCurrency money first appeared around 600 BCE in three unconnected parts of the Anatolia, China, Mesoamerica. It presented significant advantages over the gift economy and the two intermediary exchange media (commodity money and precious metals). These advantages were crossed cultural boundaries; almost permanent life-expectancy; easily determined value; relatively simple transportation and storage; no requirement for ongoing third-party oversight.The benefits delivered by currency money saw, within two hundred years, its creation and use spread around the Eastern Mediterranean, near East and China. In the following two centuries, coinage spread as far as India (helped by Alexander the Great), Rome and Central Europe.Impact of currency moneyCurrency money has different social and psychological impacts to its predecessors. Social connections were created during the gift economy era because trust was built during the exchange process.“If friends make gifts, gifts make friends.” – Marshall Sahlins, ‘Stone Age Economics’.Currency money, however, diverts trust from between the giver and receiver to the currency itself. We learned to trust money rather than one another. It’s no coincidence that major currencies bear words such as “trust” and “promise” or the signature of a national financial figure who we should trust.Beyond diverting trust away from fellow citizens, there are numerous other negative impacts of currency the separation of extended families (with further ramifications such as the need to save for independent retirement); wealth inequality; unemployment; social breakdown.But we accept the disadvantages of currency money because it seems to underwrite the best of all possible worlds. (A dominant sentiment in the 18th century to explain human suffering.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Money Puppets: A proposal for ending the hegemony of currency money.. To get started finding Money Puppets: A proposal for ending the hegemony of currency money., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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