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    #3E! Economy, Ecology, Emancipation
    #3E! Economy, Ecology, Emancipation
    #3E! Economy, Ecology, Emancipation
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    #3E! Economy, Ecology, Emancipation

    By Mary Keenness

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    Economic inequality, ecological crisis... where is our world heading? We don't know. And that's a good thing. The future of the world depends on our decisions. We have to imagine it, invent it for ourselves. The way we want it. And that's exactly what we're doing. In our text we're presenting a certain idea that might help us cope with some of today's problems. The point is for life to become easier and more enjoyable. This is not a perfect solution, because such simply do not exist. We hope, however, that we will inspire some to take a different view on certain issues. We believe that this text is worth reading.

    Please read it. And share your opinion, because your opinion matters.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMary Keenness
    Release dateFeb 25, 2018
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      #3E! Economy, Ecology, Emancipation - Mary Keenness

      #3E!

      Economy

      Ecology

      Emancipation

      By Mary Keenness

      Published by Mary Keenness at Smashwords

      Copyright 2018 Mary Keenness

      Smashwords Edition License Notes:

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Gone are the good times

      Let us conduct an experiment

      How much is enough? Vol. 1

      Treating one illness with another

      3E: Economy, Ecology, Emancipation

      Money, money, money

      Governance in the era of Electronic Budget System

      The Electronic Budget System in practice

      How much is enough? Vol. 2

      To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

      Victor Hugo

      We must think not as individuals, but as a species.

      Professor Brand (Michael Caine), Interstellar, 2014

      Gone are the good times

      One of the key problems of our period is that the international order with which we were familiar is disintegrating in some respects […]¹.This summary of contemporary global situation was offered by Henry Kissinger, an American diplomat and politician, at the 2017 World Economic Forum in Davos.

      The gap between rich and poor keeps widening² – an excerpt from the 2015 OECD report (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development).

      Nick Hanauer, an American multimillionaire, writing to his fellow multimillionaires, used less diplomatic words to summarize the situation: The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats.³ Instead of pitchforks, they might use bombs.

      Few people today are under the illusion that the near future will be better. Voices are heard that the worst is yet to come. All we have is hope that the situation will not get worse, and we will not wake up in the world of The Walking Dead. Naomi Klein put it briefly: Because if there is one thing we know, it’s that the future is going to have plenty of shocks.⁴

      Let us conduct an experiment

      Although the uncertainty of the future keeps many of us awake at night, let us go back in time to the 20th century. In that period, full of negative and positive experiences, several interesting experiments were conducted.

      One of them began at the Bretton Woods Conference in July 1944. The agreement signed during the event (730 delegates from 44 countries) became the foundation for the post-war monetary system. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) and the International Monetary Fund were established. The agreement was the foundation for international relations regarding each country’s governance of its currency. Due to the decisions made, the US dollar became the international currency that could be exchanged for gold at a fixed, official exchange rate. The experiment lasted until early 1970s.

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