Talk:Freiwirtschaft

message: This page needs a lot of work to bring it up to Wikipedia's quality standards.  
On a quick read, the following issues stand out:
=== Notability ===
It's not clear that this theory is widely known or studied, or had any proponents other than Gesell.  Perhaps this page could be merged into Silvio Gesell as a subsection.
=== Verifiability ===
The following topic or assertions need references:
* Gesell's seminal work
* founding and purpose of WIR
* 'economic miracle' of WIR and link to Swiss economic stability
* Gogo as a realization of Freigeld
* 'self-stabilizing' price system (Adam Smith)
* Marxian criticism of Freiwirtschaft
* most common arguments against Freiwirtschaft
* benefits of sector-specific deflation
=== Potential errors ===
* date of founding of WIR: the linked article gives it as 1934
* the word 'Marxist' is used to describe an economic analysis; if this is meant to refer to the school of economics following the ideas of Karl Marx, this should be 'Marxian'
=== Neutrality ===
Many assertions made in this article seem highly contestable, and at the very least should be adequately referenced.  A few examples:
* 'economic miracle' of WIR
* mainstream support for and opposition to Free Trade
* proposed results of Freiwirtschaft
* flaws of the money system: criticism of a particular economic theory, presented as fact
=== Missing information ===
* the meaning of 'constant value' with regard to money
* a proper description of Freihandel
* justification of proposed results of Freiwirtschaft: these read as a grab-bag of non-sequiturs
* any development of the theory since 1932
Please note: this is not intended as a criticism of the theory of Freiwirtschaft, but of the style of the article.  The theory may well have merit... but from this article, it is difficult for the reader to understand the theory, make a critical assessment of the information provided, or find out more about the subject. miracleworker5263 (talk) 03:09, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  General quality issues 

message: * the meaning of 'constant value' with regard to money
* a proper description of Freihandel
* justification of proposed results of Freiwirtschaft: these read as a grab-bag of non-sequiturs
* any development of the theory since 1932
Please note: this is not intended as a criticism of the theory of Freiwirtschaft, but of the style of the article.  The theory may well have merit... but from this article, it is difficult for the reader to understand the theory, make a critical assessment of the information provided, or find out more about the subject. miracleworker5263 (talk) 03:09, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing information 

message: As far as I know, the "anti-globalization movement" does not oppose free trade, certainly not categorically, and I would argue that the exact opposite is true. The problem is that, as stated in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Trade, "free trade agreements" are not examples of free trade. It is government interference in free trade that the "anti-globalization movement" is opposed to.Whatsitgonnabe (talk) 19:01, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mischaracterization  of "anti-globalization movement"

message: I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
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Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 23:46, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  removing POV tag with no active discussion per [[Template:POV]]