Stories tagged with "money system"

Thoughts from Alcatraz

More than a month has passed since the ASPO/TheOilDrum summit at the Libera Università di Alcatraz at Perugia, but only recently have I had the time to go through my notes. In this post, to match the summit's informal framework, I provide a collection of thoughts I brought back home from the conference, instead of the usual one paragraph digest of each presentation.

A World Without Money?

Our Wed night/Saturday TOD:Campfire series continues. In addition to having 'practical' essays on topics our community has expertise in, the intent is also for these slots to be a home for unprovable, perhaps untestable ideas, from which (perhaps) testable and worthwhile ideas emerge. Since it is New Years Eve, meaning tomorrow marks a new mini-beginning, (and the fact that traffic will be low...;-), below the fold is a short thought experiment. Imagine what the world would look like if tomorrow morning we woke up, and all money in the world had disappeared.....