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Financing Our Future: Unveiling a Parallel Digital Currency System to Fund the SDGs and the Common Good

Autor Stefan Brunnhuber
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The monetary system is the indispensable missing link in the debate of sustainability, and whether the current financial system can handle these evolved needs. To date, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) primarily have been financed either through the private sector, through conventional public sector taxes and fees, or through philanthropic commitment. Assuming a need of 4 to 5 trillion dollars annually in the 10 to 15 years left to finance our future, these conventional sources of finance are insufficient in terms of both the scale and speed of funding required to finance our future. Furthermore, the inherent instability of our financial system forces the world community to focus first and foremost on repairing and stabilizing the existing system.
The development of cryptocurrencies using distributed ledger technologies (mainly blockchain) has prompted leading central banks to study the potential application of this approach to independently create purchasing power. In this vein, this book offers a new approach, namely introducing a parallel electronic currency specifically designed to finance global common goods and provide the resources necessary to achieve the SDGs. Furthermore, this mechanism would have a stabilizing effect on the existing monetary system.The book argues that one way this could be achieved is by giving central banks a modified monetary mandate to inject new liquidity into the system using a top-down approach. Alternatively, liquidity could come from corporate or communal initiatives with crypto- or communal currencies in a bottom-up approach. The author maintains that by issuing a blockchain-enabled parallel electronic currency earmarked for SDG-related projects and using other channels for monetary flow rather than the conventional ones, the future could be financed in a different manner. In the long run, abandoning our current monetary monoculture and introducing a monetary ecosystem would stabilize international financial markets, increase monetary regulatory efforts, reduce negative externalities, create a social Pareto optimum and stabilize democracies. This book presents, in the same spirit as Fritjof Capra’s The Tao of Physics, a Tao of finance—an outside-of-the-box approach to financing global common goods.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030648282
ISBN-10: 3030648281
Pagini: 221
Ilustrații: XXIX, 221 p. 45 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2021
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1. A New Narrative for the Anthropocene Era.- Chapter 2. Beyond the Mantra of Traditional Finance.- Chapter 3. Western Thinking at its Best.- Chapter 4. Unleashing the Sleeping Giant – Discovering New Ground and Starting the Dance of the TAO.- Chapter 5: The TAO of Finance.- Chapter 6. New Symmetries – The Future has a History or a Path with a Heart. 

Notă biografică

Stefan Brunnhuber is currently an Endowed Professor for Psychology & Sustainability; as a MD psychiatrist he is Medical Director and Chief Medical Officer at Diakonie Kliniken, acute Hospital for Integral Psychiatry in Germany. He has more than 25 years of experience in research, business, finance, psychology and sustainability and continues to work as an institutional and corporate consultant. He holds PhDs in both medicine and socio-economics from the University of Konstanz und Würzburg, Germany. As Full Member of the Club of Rome and Trustee of the World Academy of Art and Science, he has been involved in the field of finance and sustainability over two decades.


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The monetary system is the indispensable missing link in the debate of sustainability, and whether the current financial system can handle these evolved needs. To date, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) primarily have been financed either through the private sector, through conventional public sector taxes and fees, or through philanthropic commitment. Assuming a need of 4 to 5 trillion dollars annually in the 10 to 15 years left to finance our future, these conventional sources of finance are insufficient in terms of both the scale and speed of funding required to finance our future. Furthermore, the inherent instability of our financial system forces the world community to focus first and foremost on repairing and stabilizing the existing system.
The development of cryptocurrencies using distributed ledger technologies (mainly blockchain) has prompted leading central banks to study the potential application of this approach to independently create purchasing power. In this vein, this book offers a new approach, namely introducing a parallel electronic currency specifically designed to finance global common goods and provide the resources necessary to achieve the SDGs. Furthermore, this mechanism would have a stabilizing effect on the existing monetary system.The book argues that one way this could be achieved is by giving central banks a modified monetary mandate to inject new liquidity into the system using a top-down approach. Alternatively, liquidity could come from corporate or communal initiatives with crypto- or communal currencies in a bottom-up approach. The author maintains that by issuing a blockchain-enabled parallel electronic currency earmarked for SDG-related projects and using other channels for monetary flow rather than the conventional ones, the future could be financed in a different manner. In the long run, abandoning our current monetary monoculture and introducing a monetary ecosystem would stabilize international financial markets, increase monetary regulatory efforts, reduce negative externalities, create a social Pareto optimum and stabilize democracies. This book presents, in the same spirit as Fritjof Capra’s The Tao of Physics, a Tao of finance—an outside-of-the-box approach to financing global common goods.

Caracteristici

Stimulates debate on how best to finance sustainability by providing a completely new perspective using the lens of Eastern thinking Provides a systems-based approach to financing the future that includes interdisciplinary findings from behavioral science and clinical psychology Introduces a parallel electronic currency specifically designed to finance global common goods and to achieve the SDGs Unveiling the required financial mechanism to finance our common future