All contents on the topic: Other reform proposals

Event archive: Collaborative Finance #2 – Serving Local Communities

from 28. June 2024 to 2. July 2000, Banja LuKa, Bosnia

We need to re-organise work, wages, cooperation, food, community, procurement, health, education, even government. Financial innovation is a critical part of the solution, re-imagining investment, ownership, pensions, money, cooperation, supply chains and resilience. There are too many ideas to process, it can be hard to look beyond our specialist bubbles and impossible to coordinate, to […]

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Event archive: Ethical Investments and Peace (online)

on 28. February 2024 16:30, Online

What is the role of banks and investment companies in financing wars and the arms industry? With a keynote from Susi Snyder, Programme Coordinator at ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. New research, ‘Finance for Peace. Finance for War’, will be launched at the event, followed by a panel discussion with representatives […]

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Latest research on monetary diversity

Leander Bindewald, 10. January 2022

Special Issue “Monetary Plurality and Crisis” in the Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM)   In addition to our commitment to the implementation of innovative currency ideas and the ongoing educational work on money and monetary reforms, it is above all the academic treatment of these two fields of activity that will ultimately pave […]

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Event archive: Summer School: Alternative Economic and Monetary Systems

from 25. July 2018 to 10. August 2018, Vienna

Is a world dominated by profit and competition a good place to be? This summer program focuses on ways to restructure economic systems to embody sustainable use of resources and a more collaborate society overall. At AEMS you learn about: The variety of alternative economic and monetary systems that are already in practice worldwide. Ecologic […]

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Event archive: ISB Certificate in Socially Responsible Finance

from 19. September 2016 to 24. March 2017, Alfter, Germany

More info about this course at: http://www.social-banking.org/certificate/course-201617/ We need to find answers to this question and reflect on the changes needed for a more sustainable and socially responsible finance sector – but opportunities to do this in educational settings are rare. Therefore we developed this course and set up a partnership between the  Institute for Social […]

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New Economics Foundation, England

The New Economics Foundation (NEF) is a British ‘think tank’, which promotes economic and ecological justice. NEF has been the UK’s leading research organisation for money, credit and complementary currencies since 1986. www.neweconomics.org

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Which other promising solutions are there?

Further economic reforms are being discussed around the world, new concepts are being conceived and new approaches tried. We can distinguish two main approaches here: Top-down reforms, initiated by government bodies Bottom- up reforms through altered economic behaviour between people. On this website you will find further explanations of the following themes: Common Good Economy […]

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Regulatory approaches

Movements to reform money at the national level generally have a hard time. Their proponents must lobby for years or decades to gain influence over politicians and their advisors and they must present factually based and politically convincing concepts. If political reforms are realized, they often have far-reaching consequences because laws remain in force for […]

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