Greta Thunberg, motives and being strategic
Caroline Whyte reflects on some of the criticism of Greta Thunberg's campaign.
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Limits to Incentives
Means of exchange are never neutral as orthodox economists assume. Intentional Currencies respond by being explicit about the values they seek to promote and the outcomes they seek to achieve. An analysis of the use of incentives in currency design helps to guide that design. It also indicates strategies to utilise incentives to motivate intentional communities, NGOs and other volunteer-based organisations. By Graham Barnes.
Motivations for New Currency Design
Those developing new currencies will want to explore the various motivations behind what they're doing and set out for themselves - ideally explicitly - their balance of motives. Graham Barnes identifies some of the main 'flavours' of motivation.
New currencies and their relationship with fiat currency
Graham Barnes writes that "creating and maintaining a currency without any interaction with fiat is clearly a challenge. It's like asking fish to reinvent water while they are swimming around in it. But if we consider the main forms of interaction with fiat, some clues as to the management of the difficulties may emerge."
Virtue, Fashion and Climate Change
In the third and final excerpt from his book The Commons of Soil, Patrick Noble explores the relationship between fashion and rapid change in societies. Our drive to be social and belong in a community - extrinsic motivations - could be regarded as a possible catalyst for adaptation to a post-oil economy.
