exchange. The exchange of goods and money creates the flow of energy within an economic system. "In society, initially innovation drives the changes and innovation creates the building blocks which allow the next stages of social and economic development." If individuals or companies decrease their spending on innovation, the energy into the economic system will decline. Economic secession withdraws capital that leads to innovation and economic prosperity in society. See also Agorism Alternative currency Bitcoin Complementary currency Digital gold currency eCache Local currency Mutualism (economic theory) Ripple monetary system Tax avoidance and tax evasion Tax resistance Underground economy Ven (currency) References External links "Economic Secession" by John T. Kennedy "Economic Secession Won’t Succeed" by Gene Callahan "Economic Secession: A Rebuttal" by Claire Wolfe "Counter-Economics: Our Means" by Samuel Edward Konkin III, chapter three of New Libertarian Manifesto Abstract: Wendell Berry's "Conservation and Local Economy" Anarchist theory Secession Tax resistance Tax avoidance Separatism in the United States