The classic speculative bubble of high-tech industries has burst in the year 2000. Another golden age of capitalism came to an end contrary to over-optimistic forecasts in the Clinton-era. In reality, the collapse was inevitable and it is easy to recognise that the previous boom of the 1990s was not that remarkable either. Real wages or free time had declined, families have faced disintegration, increasing crime and a widening gap between rich and pore behind the growing GDP.

In the early 1930s when the economic crisis devastated America many communities found a solution for exchange by developing community money systems. Farmers continued to produce and many unemployed also wanted to work but the capitalist system did not allow them to integrate their activities. From the 1980s these local money systems have re-emerged again, this time as a result of deliberate strategy.

Our imaginary round table is surrounded by Wolfram Trieber, Friderike Habermann and Reinhard van der Veen. They explain their views on the so called anti-globalisationmovements and their mass demonstrations in the recent years.