Cashless payment systems: Open Air visitors spend more money
Most music festivals in Switzerland now rely on cashless, closed-loop payment systems. Festival operators thereby benefit financially in several ways. Visitors often do not ...
Economics
Why is the 1,000-franc note so popular?
While in the euro zone the note with the highest nominal value (500 euro note) will no longer be issued from the end of April 2019, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) is currently ...
Potential Consequences of Cashless Switzerland
For various reasons, certain voices regularly call for the abolition of cash in Switzerland. What would be the consequences of this radical demand?
First of all: The Swiss love ...
Have you ever illustrated “market” before?
The fourth and final part of the story of Econvillage100.
Co-Author: Dr. Carolin Güssow
Markets are omnipresent. Not a day goes by in which we do not buy something (and in which ...
The anonymous Econvillage100 system of nobody and its development
Co-author: Dr. Carolin Güssow
Third part of the story of Econvillage100.
The residents of Econvillage100 have therefore decided that there should no longer be a central planner.
The history of Econvillage and Econvillage100
Co-Authored by Dr. Carolin Güssow
The global population is around 7.5 billion. Let’s decrease this figure to a symbolic total of eight people living on a patch of fertile ...