The Initiative for Natural Economic Order (INWO eV) is a free-enterprise association and recognized as a non-profit association with a political educational mission.
Based on the ideas of the social reformer Silvio Gesell , the INWO stands for the introduction of money secured for circulation (Freigeld) and for land reform (open land). After initial reservations, she supports and supports today's regio-money initiatives. In addition, she advocates a basic income to be financed through a tax on resource and energy consumption.
The German INWO group (INWO-D) cooperates with the Christians for Just Economic Order (CGW eV). Both associations, which together form the working group Just Economic Order [4] , are members of Attac .
The association publishes the four-monthly journal Fairconomy, which has a circulation of 2000 copies and of which all issues since 2001 are available free of charge on the Internet. The name "Fairconomy" is also used in other publications as a modern synonym for free economy. At the seminars and conferences Eugen Drewermann, Peter Kafka, Hans Christoph Binswanger, Helmut Creutz, Margrit Kennedy, Bernd Senf, and other speakers. In addition, special promotional materials are used: a widely distributed "interest beer coaster" refers to an interest component in the prices of an average of 30 percent, and a large balloon already inflated in several cities carries the inscription: "70 billion pa Zinsbombe", pointing to the annual interest burden on the public sector in Germany.
After the dissolution of the International Free Economic Union (IFU) during a conference on 21 and 22 May 1978 in Konstanz , the free-livers Hein Beba (D) and Otto Haag (CH) were encouraged to form a new International Association for the Natural Economic Order. In 1983 there were other conferences in Konstanz and Kreuzlingen establishing the International Association. As successor organization of the Liberalsozialistischen party (LSP) INWO Switzerland was founded in 1990, and in 1993 the INWO-D in the register of associations Frankfurt am Mainentered. There is also an Austrian group. The abbreviation INWO stands today for Initiative for Natural Economic Order . The proposal of the Silvio Gesell publisher Werner Onken, considered in 2004, to rename the INWO to the "Initiative for a Sustainable Economic System" was not followed.