Pour Julie Trottier, économiste, je reçois des bulletins de nouvelles périodiques d'un écomoniste Brittannique, James Robertson. Je l'ai connu vers 1985, parce qu'il était un ami de Robert Théobald, aussi économiste et auteur, de qui j'ai traduit un manifeste international, À la croisée des chemins. invisible dans Internet, mais présent dans le livre: Altgernatives d'ici et d'ailleurs. éditions du Fleuve. ( présent par exemple à la BNQ) Voici un extrait du bulletin de James Robertson
The last item in Newsletter No 50 (March) was on "One Glimpse of the
Coming UK Election". Now there is something else to say.
(1) "The Public Money Supply should be for People, not for
Banks – an Election issue for Britain?". See www.thomasattwood.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/a-message-from-dora-meade-positive-moneys-network-coordinator.
You should act on it if you agree it's important.
There have also been some other interesting developments.
(2) With good sense the Iceland government
is now seriously considering whether to deprive commercial banks of the
privilege of creating the national money supply as debt to themselves. See www.thomasattwood.wordpress.com/2015/04/04/frosti-sigurjonssons-sovereign-money-proposal-icelands-central-bank-would-become-the-only-creator-of-money.
(3) A petition is being put to President
Zuma of South Africa asking him to "Create a People's Bank in South
Africa - and to do this by re-purposing the CENTRAL BANK (South African Reserve
Bank) to make it a PEOPLE'S BANK that creates sovereign money as value rather
than interest bearing debt". See https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/President_Zuma
_STOP_the_BANKS_from_CREATING_MONEY_as_INTEREST _BEARING_DEBT/?pv=97.
(4) Euro or restored Drachma for the Greeks? If the
Greeks have to go back to the drachma, they would be sensible to follow
Iceland's example at (2) above. See www.wolfstreet.com/2015/04/03/greece-threatens-with-drachma-plans-exit-euro.
These examples and others suggest that, sooner than
we think, the world may accept the proposal to transfer the function of creating
the whole of their national money supplies debt-free to public agencies serving
the public interest.
That would remove the present privilege given to commercial banks to
create over 95% of national money supplies as profitable debt for
themselves.
Public policy would then not only remove the compulsory debt
now imposed on all citizens for using the public money supply. Public
policy would become freer than now to encourage the use of
democratically controlled local and other complementary currencies; and
it would also be freer than now to reduce today's systemic pressure to
widen the growing financial gap between the majority of people and the
comparatively few people able to share the unearned profits of the banks.
There are well-meaning people who believe that
reforming the money system at national level will conflict with developing its
growth at local level. But I think they are wrong. It's fairly obvious that
reforming the money system at national level is a necessary step toward
a more decentralised money system as a whole.
James Robertson
28 April 2015
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Voici la liste de ses livres, dont The Sane Alternative, qui a gagné un beau prix.
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