The Economy of Balance. Money, Finance and Planetary Boundaries
The Economy of Balance
Money, Finance and Planetary Boundaries
by Jean-Christophe Duval – Debunk'Onomy Editions
The ecological crisis is not a crisis of resources, but a crisis of the rules of the game!
What if the solution to the ecological crisis were not economic, but monetary?
This manifesto proposes a complete refoundation of our monetary creation system, to enable humanity to thrive without destroying the very conditions for life on Earth.
In The Economy of Balance, Jean-Christophe Duval presents the NEMO IMS system (NEgentropic MOney International Monetary System), a revolutionary monetary architecture in which part of the money supply is no longer issued as the counterpart of a debt, but as the counterpart of regenerative activities: cleaning up the oceans, reforesting, restoring soils, protecting biodiversity, strengthening public services, financing fundamental research…
"In the current system, the most degenerative activities are the most profitable, while regenerative activities are ignored because they are insolvent in the short term — this is the tragedy of the horizons.
Imagine, then, an inversion of this polarity… a system where money is created in proportion to what it regenerates, and degrades in proportion to what it degrades! This would be a major disruption of the monetary paradigm as it has always been conceived!"
The Economy of Balance is a book that invites a paradigm shift:
- from growth to ecosystemic robustness,
- from degenerative debt-money to regenerative debt-free money,
- from competition to cooperation,
- from extraction to repair.
The Economy of Balance is not a utopia, but an operational theory grounded in the thermodynamics of the living world, macroeconomics, and social justice.
It is a project to rethink the very meaning of human progress, redefine value, and offer our children the possibility of a livable future.
A book that is at once poetic, rational, and revolutionary.