{"product_id":"9781603581882","title":"Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender","description":"\u003cp\u003eCash. Loot. Scratch. Lucre. Bread. Coin. Scrip. Moolah. Green. We all think we know intuitively what money is, and what it can do for us. Tom Greco, director of the Community Information Resource Center, understands and explains money on an eye-popping, fundamental level. Moreover, he provides a roadmap on how to make alternatives to the \"legal tender\" work for individuals, communities, and local economies.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMoney will set your mental gears spinning with fantastic ideas. This book explains the mysteries and realities of money in clear and accessible prose, and reveals the true workings, and alarming fragility, of our existing financial system. It also describes concrete and realistic actions that individuals, businesses, social service agencies, and governments can take to enhance productivity and purchasing power, to protect local economies from the ravages of globalization, and to strengthen the bonds of community.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoney\u003c\/em\u003e is a radical critique of our existing financial system, but also a practical and inspirational how-to manual for creating a vibrant and effective community currency system.\u003cbr\u003e You'll learn:\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe truth about how money is created, and what it actually represents\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhy we're all in debt\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow the financial system is structured to inevitably transfer wealth from the poor to the rich\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow to start a financial revolution in your local community\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eA retired professor of business and economics, Tom Greco has spent twenty years studying community currency systems around the world, including historical models (such as during the Great Depression), and the scores of contemporary examples now operating in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. He helped establish the Tucson Traders currency in Arizona, and he has served as a consultant for many others. No pie-in-the-sky idealist, Greco offers a realistic vision of how healthy local economies can be supplemented with flourishing community currencies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Anyone who works routinely with money needs this book--this means bankers, stockbrokers, merchants, community organizers, loan sharks, gamblers, investors, bank robbers, hedgefund operators, sports agents, and ordinary people.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chelsea Green Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133863477488,"sku":"9781603581882","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781603581882_p0.jpg?v=1763825809","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781603581882","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}