http://cleanslate.editboard.com/clean-slate-economics-f5/-t1.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:30:14 GMT 10 http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r318/Sir_Spike/EcopolisEcocityMetropolis.jpg http://cleanslate.editboard.com/clean-slate-economics-f5/-t1.htm http://cleanslate.editboard.com/clean-slate-economics-f5/gold-backed-currency-t29.htm Flash Hey so who here supports a gold-backed currency? I read that if all our money is backed by gold we would never hack to worry about inflation. Clean Slate Economics Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:39:37 GMT http://cleanslate.editboard.com/clean-slate-economics-f5/gold-backed-currency-t29.htm#139 http://cleanslate.editboard.com/clean-slate-economics-f5/gold-backed-currency-t29.htm http://cleanslate.editboard.com/clean-slate-economics-f5/clean-slate-economics-t30.htm Mike I've recently flicked through Erik S Reinerts excellent new book, "How Rich Countries Got Rich, and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor". In it, Reinert asserts the importance of basing economic theories on real observations, not purely on idealistic theory as has been published before. Here is an excerpt and following that are a few notes I made while flicking through: pg7: "Antonio Serra. 17th Century economist, sought to explain why his hometown of Naples remained so ... Clean Slate Economics Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:46:38 GMT http://cleanslate.editboard.com/clean-slate-economics-f5/clean-slate-economics-t30.htm#148 http://cleanslate.editboard.com/clean-slate-economics-f5/clean-slate-economics-t30.htm http://cleanslate.editboard.com/clean-slate-economics-f5/taxation-t46.htm Redsand11j I think that for a source of income, the government should bake metals out of dirt using cheap nuclear energy, and sell those on the world market. Couple that with mild taxation/very small tariffs on imports, and a decent sales tax, and the government should have plenty of money. Clean Slate Economics Mon, 19 May 2008 20:13:40 GMT http://cleanslate.editboard.com/clean-slate-economics-f5/taxation-t46.htm#323 http://cleanslate.editboard.com/clean-slate-economics-f5/taxation-t46.htm http://cleanslate.editboard.com/clean-slate-economics-f5/cs-government-economy-putarocracy-t48.htm Redsand11j Putarocracy is literally translated to "government by reckoning". However, it is the root word of computer, so it is meant to mean government by computers. Basically, there is a senate type thing with elected representatives, whose job it is to think of EVERY possible solution. These are put into the computer, which will, when it needs a value judgement, contact 100 citizens at random to give it. It will then choose the best solution. The economy will be ...a problem point, actually. ... Clean Slate Economics Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:30:14 GMT http://cleanslate.editboard.com/clean-slate-economics-f5/cs-government-economy-putarocracy-t48.htm#378 http://cleanslate.editboard.com/clean-slate-economics-f5/cs-government-economy-putarocracy-t48.htm