^ Best before…
Consumir preferentemente antes de…
À consommer de préférence avant le…

^ General view of the installation
[demonstration banners and text]

^ Money I: in some bank note, write: “Best before…” (choose a date not too far away from the moment of the action)
(*) if money got spoiled, it could not be cumulated

^ Money II: on any bank note of ….. euros (€) draw, with a black-ink pen, a zero after the numbers indicating the value of the note.
(*) you have to look for a calligraphy close to the typography used on the note.

^ Money III: with a high quantity of euros with “farewell” written on them, buy diamonds from Angola and get them repatriate with emergency.
(*) companies like Tap, Iberia, Klm, Air France (…) got special flights for repatriation.

Silvio Gesell was born at St. Vith on the German-Luxembourg frontier of a German father and a French mother. In 1886 he migrated to Argentina, prospered as importer and manufacturer, and became interested in the currency question during the world depression of 1873-96. In his first work, Currency Reform as Bridge to the Social State (1891), Gesell made the celebrated proposal for unhoardable money. Further studies on the disastrous effects of deflation and the necessity for stabilizing the purchasing power of money followed. Retiring to Switzerland, Gesell brought out a periodical for currency and land reform and in 1906 wrote his main book, The Natural Economic Order.

More about Silvio Gesell:
in english [The natural economic order] >>

en castellano [El orden económico natural] >>

em português descarregue o texto [publicado em "Combate" - Set/Nov '04, de AFS com Cynthia Benoist] >> PDF (148Kb)