A Modest Monetary and Organizational Proposal for Re-launching the Economic Welfare of Communities
ABSTRACT
In the “blueprint” we sketch, in very broad strokes, the economic contours of the ideal, communal district as we imagine it. In essence, the plan comprises a few corrective measures that, we believe,
would improve the functioning of the economy. With an eye single to social justice and to the damages of exploitation, the project seeks also to release creative potential by advocating (1) a system of monetary management based on the issuance of time-dated regional currencies (2) an organizational model of the firm in which individuals are not employees but “selfentrepreneurs” remunerated according to an agreed upon and detailed grid of roles and responsibilities; (3) the assignment of community-owned capital usage to an entrepreneurial leadership democratically elected and answerable only to the community; (4) bio-agriculture, environmental conscientiousness, and a zero-waste policy; and (5) a redefinition of the
approach to consumption by which the final user is systematically embedded in the productive process.