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The measure of value in any society determines its shape. For centuries, money has been the standard by which we assess worth. It dictates…

The world economy is no stranger to upheaval. The Great Depression, the stagflation of the 1970s, the dot-com bubble, and the 2008…

The world of global finance is often seen as a battleground of individual titans-billionaires, hedge fund wizards, central bankers-each…

Indentured servitude was once a contract entered into with the hope of escape-escape from poverty, from stagnation, from a life that…

For more than three decades, time banking has floated on the fringes of economic innovation-a well-intentioned, intellectually rigorous…

KommunityKoin provides you with a convenient and organized system in which you spend an hour helping me, then I spend an hour helping someone else who spends an hour helping yet another person and eventually it gets back around and someone spends an hour helping you. It's a circle of community members helping one another, free of charge, in a way that is equitable. 

The World Economic Forum (WEF) predicted that, by 2030, individuals would own nothing and be happy. This article examines the prediction from a proper…

The access economy is a business model where goods and services are traded on the basis of access rather than ownership: it refers to renting things temp...

Time credits are essentially a timekeeping system to ensure equity within a time co-op or time banking community. When someone spends time helping another person, the person receiving the help credits the giver for the time spent - then that person can pass along the time credit to someone who helps them. Time credits are basically "time tokens" that are passed around within a community to ensure that everyone is participating equally.

Sandra Navidi’s Superhubs brings us a penetrating look at how financial elites consolidate influence-not through individual power alone…

It is not the end of the world — not in the apocalyptic sense, at least. The oceans haven’t boiled. The stars haven’t blinked out. The…

Will Storr’s The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It is an incisive, often unsettling, look at one of the most fundamental…

It is a curious thing, this modern habit of drifting. Men and women float through their days like autumn leaves upon a river, content to…