by Ellen Brown from Yes! Magazine.
The author provides some of the best writing on money matters for the ordinary person to comprehend. This vital subject, so long obscured by capitalist oriented academics, is necessary to understand if our economies are ever going to function for the benefit of all in an ecologically sustainable way.
Once we design and implement plans for a money management system, the next important step is to provide for the democratic planning of what is produced by the economy. Thus loans would be approved by democratically controlled bodies to insure that they went only to enterprises that added real value to society without harming the environment.