Joan Antoni Melé: “To change things we must change ourselves: let's review how we use our money”



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## Joan Antoni Melé: “To change things we must change ourselves: let's review how we use our money”

23/06/2022 |
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The Chair in Transformation of the Economic Model of the Universitat Jaume I organised a lecture on the role of money in the construction of a more responsible and sustainable society, in charge of the world promoter of the model of ethical banking and member of the advisory board of Triodos Bank, Joan Antoni Melé. The lecturer David Valiente introduced Melé, president of the ‘Dinero y Conciencia’ Foundation, as a "great communicator and trainer in values".

According to the speaker's opinion, "in life, the spiritual things and the material things are together, and we have created a wound by separating them". Melé considers that the economy consists of making possible the plans and projects of human beings, born in their spiritual realm, through subjects and material resources that make them viable. "The objective of the economy should be to create value for all, so that people's lives have meaning, but today it is only about creating money". For this reason, the expert in ethical banking advocates "knowing ourselves to find what gives meaning to our lives, because making a living is not making money but asking what meaning we give it".

Melé points out as one of the great current problems that "whoever does not find the purpose of his life, finds it by earning money and buying things". He is convinced that "to change things we must change ourselves, starting by reviewing how we use money" and assures that the current economic model, based on great inequality, "we have to fix it ourselves, because no political party will do it". For Melé, we must ask ourselves “what ideas do I want to succeed in the world with my money, who do I want my money to serve, because right now more than 99% of the money circulating around the world is speculation, there is nothing behind it, and we need a new economy that instead of being based on material consumption is based on culture”.

The Chair is promoted by the Universitat Jaume I and the Department of Finance and Economic Model of the Generalitat Valenciana. Its main objective is to foster knowledge and dissemination of topics related to the transformation of the current economic model of the Valencian Community towards a more competitive one, based in innovation, knowledge, openness to the outside and sustainable from an environmental, productive and social point of view.

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