# Overview

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Resources exploring money, the functions of money, the problems with existing forms of money and how demurrage represents a promising solution that could be adopted across Web3 ecosystems.

**Credits**

The resources from the money section are heavily inspired from the [video course](https://silviogesell.com/video-course/) presented by the [Silvio Gesell Foundation](https://silviogesell.com/). Most of those resources are entirely based on the content covered in the video course. To learn more about Gesell’s background, ideas and economic perspectives please consider watching their video course.


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