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Presentation on "Controlling Casino Capital", World Social Forum, Porto Allegre
World Social Forum - Porto Alegre - Jan 25-30, 2001
Robin Round
Policy Analyst
Halifax Initiative Coalition
We use money everyday. Money is a tool; a means to simplify transactions in an economy based on the exchange of goods and services. But the way most of us use money is old fashioned, out of date. Money is no longer a means of exchange but an end in itself. We live in the era of the commodification of money, an era where money has become divorced from the real economy it was originally designed to serve.
