Overview
- Provides a completely new focus on how to achieve the SDGs through a different financial system
- Challenges the current design of money offering a more natural approach to reach the SDGs
- A transdisciplinary perspective that combines economic, ecological and social aspects
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This book combines the field of economics —especially monetary theory— with other disciplines like ecology, physics, humanities, social sciences and development theory. This transdisciplinary approach makes the book a unique contribution for researchers, students, policy makers and professionals working in governmental or nongovernmental institutions, as well as anyone interested in society’s well-being and achieving a true social-ecological transformation. It is written in an accessible language in order to reach a broad audience.
In 2015, more than 190 world leaders recognized that the world is on a “collision course” (Max-Neef) and committed to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Many conferences and high-level meetings have been held since then, and one of the most frequently discussed topics is how to finance these goals. There is a widespread belief that coming up with more money for sustainable development will “do the trick”. Usually, the discussions focus on finding additional financial resources in order to achieve the goals faster. In this book it is argued that not only is more money needed, but it needs to be a different kind of money. The book demonstrates that ALL but one of the SDGs are directly linked to our monetary system, which —being completely unnatural— can be seen as the most important, but at the same time least recognized, reason for market failure. Many people think we just need to do more, faster, better. Very few say that we have done things fundamentally wrong and that the institutions and values which motivated us to do those things need to be changed. It will be concluded that only if we change our unnatural design of money to a more natural one, will we be able to reach these goals
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Money and Its Role in the Economy
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Money and Unsustainability in Stricto Sensu
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Money and Inequality
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Outlook and Final Considerations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How to Fulfil the UN Sustainability Goals
Book Subtitle: Rethinking the Role and Concept of Money in the Light of Sustainability
Authors: Felix Fuders
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37768-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37767-9Published: 13 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37770-9Due: 15 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-37768-6Published: 11 October 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 357
Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ecology, Sustainable Development, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Heterodox Economics