THE FUTURE OF MONEY Bernard A. Lietaer - library.uniteddiversity ...

Yang currencies will tend to shape competitive, hierarchical
relationships, perfectly appropriate for certain contexts like business.
Both types of relationship have their appropriate role in everybody's
life.
When reciprocity is built into the very process of currency creation,
and when the currency is available in sufficiency - both conditions
being fulfilled in mutual credit currency systems - the exchanges
using this currency will tend to be more compatible with community
creation (Chapter 6).
This logic is not to be taken to ridiculous extremes, like believing
that it would be sufficient to give a Yin currency to a gang of
murderers in order for them to transform into lambs. 'All other things
being equal' is a relevant caveat here. However, how many
apparently loving families do you know where competition for a
scarce currency created havoc?
Integral economy or Complementary Yin-Yang economies
The concepts of Yin-Yang coherence (Figure 9.6) can now be
overlaid with the competitive and co-operative economic circuits
(Figure 5.2). This overlay produces the combination shown in Figure
9.8. It illustrates the potential role of a fully developed Yin economic
cycle as a necessary complement to the traditional Yang economy.
The graph illustrates how each perspective, the Yang or the Yin side
of the economy, can be in Tarnas's words 'both affirmed and
transcended, recognised as part of a larger whole; for each polarity
requires the other for its fulfilment'.
The human figure facing you at the centre of Figure 9.6 represents
our collective energy, all of our economic activities. The circuit on its
right-hand side (left on the image) is the Yang economy, fuelled by
the conventional national currencies, which automatically generate