Nouveaux paradigmes

In this video, David Graeber, Occupy Wall Street activist and author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, and Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics, tackle the loaded question:

What is money?

Eisenstein and Graeber aptly compare money to magic, and explore the notion that money works because we all believe in it.

This wiki is dedicated to Gift Economies and other ways to promote abundance.

To those influenced with the zeitgeist of selfishness, the idea of an economy not based on direct exchange, but on mutual giving may seem naïve, even idealistic.

In fact, gift economies are alive and well in the institution closest to most people's hearts, the family, and have been the traditional social system of man since time immemorial.

As the "greed is good" exchange-based economic system goes into terminal meltdown, alternative paradigms are rapidly emerging.