++Understanding the financial crisis
The news channels are carpeted with reports about the financial crisis. Some of us follow it obsessively, realising the historic importance of what is happening.
It is a steep learning curve, partly because of the jargon used in financial circles. However, the basic concepts are simple. Even derivatives, which underly the fragility of the current financial situation, are understandable on one important level, even though nobody, not even their creators, and certainly not the bankers who bought them, has a complete understanding of all of them.
Reforming monetary policy to bring about sustainability
This wiki is for the community of green economists to debate and discuss what kind of changes we would like to see in the world of finance, national and international, in order to bring about a sustainable economy.
We are all here to create mutual understanding, not to win arguments. Where there are deep disagreements, we will not get mad with each other, but patiently try to find the roots of our disagreements.
A wiki can be like a tree, with one trunk, which carries any number of main branches, branches, twigs and leaves. This is the great advantage of a wiki for constructive discussion as opposed to email lists: different aspects of the debate can be disucssed in different corners of the room. Texts can be modified and re-modified.
Wiki trees can also be a home to birds and squirrels, in the form of images and diagrams.
The aim of the Green Financial Reform wiki is simple: to understand how money is made, and to formulate policy governing how money should be made.
Note that some links open in a new page. This means that you have to minimise (shrink) the present page to see the linked page if you do not have Tabs running.
Want to read about the immediate situation?
Want to come in and have a look? The Central Case
There are two other GPEW wikis, one on the barrage.wikidot.com/severn-barrage-debate Severn Barrage, and one on the Israel/Palestine debate.
