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 +This topic is a sub-page of [[cofi:collaborative_finance|Collaborative Finance]].
 ====== Eloquent Cofi: Introduction ====== ====== Eloquent Cofi: Introduction ======
  
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 I want to introduce here the idea of finance as //settlement//. Let's say, we have a transaction, somebody makes a payment for a service. Finance has to do with bringing that transaction to an end. I want to introduce here the idea of finance as //settlement//. Let's say, we have a transaction, somebody makes a payment for a service. Finance has to do with bringing that transaction to an end.
  
-In the Latin of the late Roman Empire, finantia meant in fact the 'amicable settlement of a dispute', from FINARE or FINIRE, to terminate, conclude.     +In the Latin of the late Roman Empire – as Amato and Fantacci explain in their book //The End of Finance// –, //finantia// meant in fact the 'amicable settlement of a dispute', from FINARE or FINIRE, to terminate, conclude.     
  
 Likewise, payment comes from the Latin word 'pacare' which means pacify, make peace. Likewise, payment comes from the Latin word 'pacare' which means pacify, make peace.
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 So, in that sense, finance has an end as in a purpose, and also an ending, or a series of endings, where things are resolved. So, in that sense, finance has an end as in a purpose, and also an ending, or a series of endings, where things are resolved.
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 +{{:cofi:finantia.png?700|}}
  
 If we look at how the word finance is used today, it is tightly bound to money. And we have in fact a financial market where money itself is a product, where interest-bearing debts are bundled and sold off, and where more and more money is injected into the system and ends up in speculative markets that are detached from the actual economy of goods and services. If we look at how the word finance is used today, it is tightly bound to money. And we have in fact a financial market where money itself is a product, where interest-bearing debts are bundled and sold off, and where more and more money is injected into the system and ends up in speculative markets that are detached from the actual economy of goods and services.
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 ==== Exercise 1: What is / is not money? ==== ==== Exercise 1: What is / is not money? ====
 {{:cofi:what_is_money.png?700|What is money}} {{:cofi:what_is_money.png?700|What is money}}
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