Lietaer, B., Ulanowicz, R., Goerner, S., and McLaren, N. Is Our Monetary Structure a Systemic Cause for Financial Instability? Evidence and Remedies from Nature. (more)
“The urgent message for economics from nature is that the monoculture of national currencies, justified on the basis of market efficiency, generates structural instability in our global financial system. Economic sustainability therefore requires diversification in types of currencies, specifically through complementary currencies ”
Lietaer, B., Ulanowicz, R., Goerner, S., and McLaren, N. Is Our Monetary Structure a Systemic Cause for Financial Instability? Evidence and Remedies from Nature. (more)
“You cannot separate equity and efficiency if you’re talking about sustainability… The starting point, to my mind, is education and a cultural and spiritual shift to understanding that we are in this together.”
Dayna L. Cunningham is Executive Director of the Community Innovators Lab at MIT. (more)
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