Peaceful Economy – Resources

Videos

Web Pages

Videos

Money As Debt: Explains how money is created by the banks as interest-bearing debt.
Money As Debt II: Promises Unleashed.
Zeitgeist Movie: Part 1 “The Greatest Story Ever Told”: Documentary by Peter Joseph.
Zeitgeist Addendum: The follow up to the original film, focusing on money, corruption, and Jacque Fresco.

Money As Debt

Click here for “Money As Debt” online translations

Alternative Trading
Constitutional Economics
Economic Empowerment
Economy
Employment
Ethical Banking
Ethical Economy
Fair Trade
Fiscal Policy
Heterodox Economics
Local Economy
Macroeconomics
Monetary Policy
Monetary Reform
Nationalization
Plutocracy
Resource Based Economy
Social Credit
Tax History
Tax Resistance
Taxless Economy
World Debt

Alternative Trading

Investopedia: Definition and explanation
Advanced Trading: Articles with Alternative Trading tags

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Constitutional Economics

constitutionaleconomics.org: ‘This site acts as a cumulative source of information for the general reader, students and specialists in the area of Economics referred to as Constitutional Economics.’
Econ Papers:Constitutional Economics: ‘Economics at your fingertips.’

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Economic Empowerment

Give Well: ‘Developing world economic empowerment.’
The Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women: ‘The Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women (IEEW) is in the business of making a difference! The greatest challenge of the world today is creating an environment where peace will naturally prevail.’

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Economy

Wikipedia – Money Creation
Clarification of disputed information in the film “Money As Debt”
Inflation
Investopedia: ‘What does IOU mean’
Wikipedia- Interest Rates
Wikipedia – Bonds
Wikipedia – Recession
Wikipedia – Demand-pull
Wise Geek: ‘What Causes Inflation?’
Wikipedia – Store of Value
Wikipedia – Commodity
Gilt-Edged Securities
Wikipedia – Money Creation
Becoming a good Human: ‘How money is created’
Wikipedia – Fractional Reserve Banking
Wikipedia – Devaluation

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Employment

International Labour Organization: ‘The International Labour Organization (ILO) is devoted to advancing opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. Its main aims are to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue in handling work-related issues.’
Labour Force Statistics: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

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Ethical Banking

The Green Provider’s Directory

Ethical Banking Providers

Ethical Investments

Ethical Banking Explained

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Ethical Economy

New Economics Foundation: ‘We aim to improve quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environment and social issues. We work in partnership and put people and the planet first.’
Ethical Currency: ‘Ethical Currency is a foreign exchange social enterprise. Anyone can use our services – charities, NGOs, social enterprises, businesses and individuals can access a direct and cost-saving alternative to their bank for currency transactions, whilst promoting a more positive, social business model for the financial services industry as a whole.’

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Fair Trade

The Fairtrade Foundation: ‘Our vision is of a world in which justice and sustainable development are at the heart of trade structures and practices so that everyone, through their work, can maintain a decent and dignified livelihood and develop their full potential.’
World Fair Trade Organization: ‘The WFTO represents Fair Traders from grassroots through to the G8 and is the authentic voice of Fair Trade, having driven the movement for 20 years. It is the only global network whose members represent the Fair Trade chain from production to sale.’

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Fiscal Policy

Economics Help: Fiscal Policy Explained
The Institute for Fiscal Studies: ‘Our goal at the Institute for Fiscal Studies is to promote effective economic and social policies by understanding better their impact on individuals, families, businesses and the government’s finances.’

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Heterodox Economics

hetecon.com: The Heterodox Economics Portal
Heterodox Economics Newsletter: ‘Heterodox economics refers to economic theories and communities of economists that are in various ways an alternative to mainstream economics.’

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Local Economy

Local Economy Policy Unit: ‘A forum for academics and practitioners working to promote local economic development.
Community Exchange System: ‘With the impending implosion of the usury-based, global money system, now is the time to seek a new way of ‘doing’ money, one not based on debt and controlled by a global monetary elite that seems happy about destroying our planet in the pursuit of profit.’

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Macroeconomics

University of St Gallen Institute of Economics: ‘Macroeconomics Resources for Students.’
What is Macroeconomics?: About.com
N Gregory Mankiw: Macroeconomics: Online Resources to accompany fifth edition of this book

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Monetary Policy

International Monetary Fund

‘The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.’

How the World Achieved Consensus on Monetary Policy

Marvin Goodfriend – University of Connecticut

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Nationalization

Nationlisation – Definition: wordIQ.com
Wikipedia – Nationalization

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Monetary Reform

Money Reform: The (Proposed) Bank of England Act: This is a UK reform that could prevent a future financial crisis, clear the UK national debt, and restart the economy)
Care4Reform: UK-wide campaign to reform the financial system that the power to create money is taken away from profit-making entities (the high street banks), and returned to the state.
Ben Dyson: UK monetary reformist.
The Money Reform Party: UK monetary reform movement.
The People’s Bank Party: Australian monetary reform movement.
Prosperity: Scotland based monetary reform movement.
American Monetary Institute: The study of monetary history, monetary theory and monetary reform.

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Plutocracy

Plutocracy Defined: The Progessive Living Glossary

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Resource Based Economy

Wikipedia – Jacques Fresco
The Venus Project: ‘The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.’
The Zeitgeist Movement
Zeitgeist Film Series Official Gateway Page

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Social Credit

Douglas Social Credit Secretariat: ‘Welcome to the Social Credit Secretariat. Frances Hutchinson chairs the Social Credit Secretariat and edits The Social Crediter. Through this educational site you can find out more about the Origins of social credit, its founder Clifford Hugh Douglas, Books, Resources and Archives.’
Social Credit Blog: ‘A website devoted to advancing the theories and policies of Clifford Hugh Douglas’

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Tax History