How to Fulfil the UN Sustainability Goals

Rethinking the Role and Concept of Money in the Light of Sustainability

AvFelix Fuders

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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It is written in an accessible language in order to reach a broad audience.In 2015, more than 190 world leaders recognized that the world is on a “collision course” (Max-Neef) and committed to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this book it is argued that not only is more money needed, but it needs to be a different kind of money.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-10-29
Mått:155 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt:581 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:357
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031377709

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Felix Fuders holds a M.A. in International Business Administration and a Ph.D. in Economics and Social Science (Germany). Professor of Microeconomics, Monetary and Fiscal Policy and Ecological Economics at the Universidad Austral de Chile. He currently serves as director of the Economics Institute as well as coordinator of the Right Livelihood College, campus Valdivia. Head of the Economic Policy chapter of the Transdisciplinary Research Center of Socio Ecological Strategies for Forest Conservation. Felix Fuders is the chairman of the Natural Economic Order Foundation (INWO .e.V.), Frankfurt, member of the Association for Sustainability, Berlin, member of the Sustainable Economics Network, Berlin and member of the academic council of the Instituto de Estudios Económicos Silvio Gesell, Buenos Aires. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Applied Sciences Münster, Germany and visiting researcher at University of Bonn, Germany.

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Part I - Money and its role in the economy.- 1. Introduction: the world is on a collision course.- 2. What is money?.- 3. Money is like the ‘blood’ of the economy.- Part II Money and the unsustainability in stricto sensu.- 4. The growth imperative inherent in our financial system.- 5. The effect of the money interest rate on money supply, demand and growth.- 6. Economic growth in the long run is unsustainable.- 7. Economic growth or unemployment.- Part III. Money and inequality.- 8. Our current monetary system produces income inequality.- 9. Moral-ethic aspects of interest-induced inequality.- Part IV Natural money as solution.- 10. Gesell’s solution.- 11. Gesell’s Solution to achieve the SDGs.- 12. How to implement Gesell’s solution in today’s world.- 13. Alternatives to Gesell’s solution.- 14. Experiences with Gesell’s solution.- Part V Outlook and final considerations.- 15. Towards a Development at Human Scale.- 16. Economic resilience in presence of externals shocks.- 17. Final considerations.