Our Relationship With Money

(1) TIME FOR A NEW THEORY OF MONEY

http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/new_theory.php

The reason our financial system has routinely gotten into trouble, with periodic waves of depression like the one we’re battling now, may be due to a flawed perception not just of the roles of banking and credit but of the nature of money itself. In our economic adolescence, we have regarded money as a “thing”—something independent of the relationship it facilitates.