1st Edition

Ecological Money History, Theory, and Development

By Yonghyup Oh Copyright 2027
190 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the development of the ecological monetary paradigm in which money is created for the restoration and improvement of the Earth’s ecology in a way that simultaneously addresses environmental and human well-being issues. Ecological money is created via the facilities of monetization and proliferated by the pricing of products. The book, however, postulates that the development... Read more

Acknowledgements

Prologue

1  Ecological monetary thoughts

2  Ecological money

3  Ecological pricing: Proliferation of ecological money

4  Ecological traverse: From a dilemma to a trilemma

5  How can we mitigate the trilemma?

6  Theory of policy making

7  Measurement of ecology, sustainability, and sustainable development

Epilogue        

Index

Biography

Yonghyup Oh (Dr.) is a South Korean economist active in Belgium. He is visiting professor, affiliated with the University of Antwerp. He is occasionally invited to give lectures in other Belgian high education premises such as KU Leuven and Vlerick Business School. He has been an advisor of public policy working with the CEPS (Brussels), the KIEP (South Korea), and the Club of Rome (Brussels) and taught undergraduate and graduate students at Seoul National University and Paris School of Economics. He visited the London School of Economics and the Collège d’Europe where he made progress in his academic work. He published over 70 policy and academic papers and reports, the topics of which include the establishment of an international financial centre, the world with the G-20, foreign aid in Africa, international capital market integration, and the determinants of cross-border financial flows and of real business cycles. His most recent publication was about sustainability valuation of business.