Renewable energy can become a fraction of the cost of burning carbon to generate electricity in communities that use money that has a usage charge described as "demurrage". As with Islamic banking, demurrage money eliminates discounting future values from the ability of earning interest today....

Unlike leaders and scholars in the rest of the world, at least one Chinese leader and a Chinese scholar have identified the need to establish economic democracy as basis for introducing political democracy. Economic democracy also increases survival for the many by reducing environmental...

All social relationships and the coordination of any activity between humans depend upon the transmission, reception, storage and processing units of information measured in bytes. Bytes provide a basis for grounding the study of social relationship and institutions in the natural sciences...

This article explores how both corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be improved by using insights from complexity theory. Complexity theory reveals that decentralized governance architecture is required for firms to absorb competently the increased intricacies,...

Perpetual property rights to land, structures, corporations and money allows investors to be overpaid to create inefficiencies and inequities in a way not measured by accountants and little noticed by economists. All intellectual property rights have limited life. Most assets depreciate over...

This paper considers how should regulators control electronic money? E-money transacted through cell phones has achieved rapid growth. Technology has allowed various units of value to emerge as a medium of exchange to compete with legal tender without involving banks. This practice could...