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The Marks Plan, and nontraditional money
I think that the essential idea of the Marks Plan is simply brilliant. A couple of embellishments, drawn from the ideas of Bernard Lietaer's book The Future of Money, might be to simultaneously put in place a local currency with demurrage in order to automagically spread the system far and wide. Similar ideas worked in depression era Europe and the U.S.A. The mathematics of the monetary systems are (by construction) the same. Why wouldn't they work in Afghanistan (or in the West Bank, or in Central Africa, or in...)? Or am I thinking too far out of the box, and trying to impose Western values (money?!?!?) on an Eastern culture? There are responses to this message:
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