Business Administration: From Barter to Bitcoin and Beyond: Re-imagining Money for a Sustainable Future
Kurs 7.5 högskolepoäng
Beskrivning
Imagine you have the possibility to re-imagine our monetary system: Where would you start? How would you build it on the new monetary technologies? How would you work to make it more conducive to just and equal societies?
The global financial crisis of 2008 marked the beginning of an intense discussion on the consequences of our monetary system on the organization of our societies. The concentration of wealth in “the one percent” in parallel to austerity policies, the increase of prices of financial assets parallel to a retrenchment of the welfare state have resulted in a generalised realisation that the monetary system has not been serving the interests of the population as a whole.
The discussion on the organization of our monetary system is however as much driven by frustration towards the financial system as it is by excitement about new monetary developments. New payment systems (such as Swish or Apple Pay), the decline of cash, the emergence of digital currencies (such as Bitcoin and Ethereum) as well as local currencies (such as Time Dollars, Regiogeld or Transition Town currencies) and the development of new financial practices (such as P2P lending, crowdfunding or ICOs) are opening up our thinking on money and our possibilities to re-imagine, re-organize and re-claim money.
That is, the changing nature of money is giving rise to a wave of experimentation on new forms of money. These experiments see money not as an obstruction but as a vehicle for constructing more sustainable economies, more resilient communities and more fair societies. While these new monetary ideas and real-life efforts may seem contradictory, money scholars, practitioners and activists agree that money needs to be re-organized, that this can be done from the bottom-up, and that we can indeed imaginatively engage with the future of money.
This course is addressed to students who want to explore the idea that money can be re-designed. Students will be exposed to the theoretical and practical realities that come with “re-imagining money”. The course does not require previous knowledge in neither finance nor economics or technology. It however does ask students to be open to actively engage in re-thinking the monetary landscape. We will do this through a monetary workshop at the end of the course, in which student groups will be designing a monetary system for a particular social purpose.
Kursplan
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Företagsekonomiska institutionen
Besöksadress
Tycho Brahes väg 1, 223 63 Lund
Postadress
Box 7080, 220 07 Lund
Behörighet & urval
Förkunskapskrav
Grundläggande behörighet samt grundkurs i företagsekonomi FEKA90 1-30 hp eller motsvarande
Urval
Anmälan & antagning
Start Vårterminen 2023
Dagtid Lund, deltid 50%
På engelska
Studieperiod
22 mars 2023 - 4 juni 2023
Ansökan
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Anmälningsavgiften är 900 kronor. Studieavgiften för Business Administration: From Barter to Bitcoin and Beyond: Re-imagining Money for a Sustainable Future är 12 500 SEK.