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Rethinking Money: Toward the Golden Age
I. Money: a Conscious Choice

  1. What IS Money?
  2. Today's Money
  3. Work-Enabling Currencies
  4. Community Currencies
  5. A Question of Balance
  6. Global Reference Currency
  7. Cyber-Money: the Coming Wave
  8. Can the Different Currency Systems Fit Together?
II. Why Now?

  1. Key Concepts
  2. The Case of the Missing Archetype
  3. Healing Money for the Twenty-First Century
  • Appendix A: Some Technical Aspects of Today's Money
  • Appendix B: How to Create Your Own Money
  • Personal Notes