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MONEY
-> ECONOMICS -> CAPITALISM -> MARKETS -> LIVELIHOODS
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Economic Topics for the ESF Agenda: Local Poverty, Economic
Justice and the Global South. Capitalism is the Problem! -
Against Neo-liberalism and Privatisation, and For Co-operative
Socialism - at LETS Co-operate, Solidarity Village, European
Social Forum, London, 14th-17th October 2004
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| PROPERTY |
FINANCE |
INFRASTRUCTURE |
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LAND
• The Commons: Public/Private/Social
Ownership
• Land and Buildings
• Land Value Taxation • Henry George Foundation
• Fred Harrison • Don Riley - "Taken for a
Ride"
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MONEY
• Privately/ Publicly/ Socially Created
• Endogenous Money (government-issued interest-free)
- Rodney Shakespeare
• Citizen's (Basic) Income
• Guaranteed Employment
• Currency/Share Markets (Tobin Tax)
• Multinationals/Transnationals
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PUBLIC
SERVICES
Public/
Private/ Social provision of
• Water • Electricity • Gas •
Transport
• Communications • Media •
Education • Health • Housing
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INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY
• Access • Academic and Intellectual
Freedom • Genetically Modified Organisms • Biological
Patents • Open Source Software • Fair Use of Music
& Video
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DEBT
• Personal Debt
• Family Debt
• Corporate Debt
• National Debt
• Third World Debt (Jubilee 2000 - Ann Pettifor)
• World Bank/ IMF (Bretton Woods Project)
•
The Role of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) - Susan
Quick
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QUALITY of LIFE
• Cultural Integrity and Diversity
• Open Access
• Life-long Learning
• Collaborative & Co-operative Structures
• Local & Global Stewardship
• Social Income (services free at point of use)
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NATURAL
RESOURCES
• Nonrenewable and Renewable Energy
• Carbon Taxes
• Food
• Water
• Clean Air
• Localisation (Environmental Economics, Tax and Localisation
- FOE c/o Hannah Griffiths)
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ETHICS
• Usury (Riba) • Loan Sharks •
Banking Scandals • Limitation of Liability • Speculation
• Monopoly • Corruption (Report of Research on
Corporate Corruption - Jon Cloke)
• Poverty (Minimum Incomes Needed for Health Living
- Budget Standard - Rev Paul Nicolson) • Slavery
• Personal Responsibility • Feminist Economics
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ECONOMICS
EDUCATION
• Economics Teaching
(Post-Autistic Economics - Association of Heterdox Economists
- Contre La Pensee Unique - Marxist & Post-Keynsian Economics
- Radstats? - Alan Freeman)
• Money Education in the School Curriculum |
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STEWARDSHIP
Community
Ownership & Co-operative Stewardship
• Self-managed Housing Co-operatives in Practice -
Dagmar Diesner
• Co-operatives in Spain - Alan Freeman,
• Recuperation Initiatives in Argentina - Alan Freeman
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SOLIDARITY
ECONOMY
• Credit Unions
• Not-for-Profit Community Banking
• Micro-Credit Institutions
• Guarantee Societies
• Co-ownership
• Stakeholder Participation
•
People's Pensions |
COMMUNITY
CURRENCIES
• Business Barter
• Local Exchange Trading
• Timebanks
• Benefits Disregards for LETS - Fiona Hoppe
• LETS representation on Local Strategic Planning Partnerships
being run currently (mandatorily) by Local Councils - Steve
Heigham.
• Research on management
styles in local and regional
LETS - Mark Simnett, Colin Wilson |
