Briefing for the Cheetahs: Green Economists and Capital or Money


You already have some useful resources in the folder for the fourth session of the course, which
focused on money.


These two books you can find in the FSS library are also useful:


Richard Douthwaite, Short Circuit: L2-128


Richard Douthwaite, The Ecology of Money (a brief introduction to a green perspective on money):
L2-125. Also available online here: http://www.feasta.org/documents/moneyecology/contents.htm


Online resources you may find helpful:


How the way we create money creates a pressure for unsustainable growth:

http://www.greeneconomycoalition.org/know-how/reform-money-new-green-economy


Some alternative economists talk about money and nankiny:

http://www.positivemoney.org/videos/economists/


My paper exploring how local currencies might revive local economies:

http://www.greenhousethinktank.org/files/greenhouse/home/local-liquidity-inside.pdf


More about the Bristol Pound:

http://bristolpound.org/


A shorter paper by me about the idea of different currencies for different functions:

http://www.greenhousethinktank.org/files/greenhouse/admin/Multi-Layer_Money.pdf