Author: Gilson Guilherme Miguel Ângelo

Abstract

The Artisanal Reproductive Methodology (MAR) is an innovative and critical proposal presented by Gilson Guilherme Miguel Ângelo in the book Money is a Complex Product. More than an economic theory, MAR offers an integrated system of concrete responses to three of the greatest contemporary challenges facing peripheral and African societies: technological unemployment, chronic and volatile inflation, and the crisis of financial and economic legislation. By rescuing the value of artisanal labor, structuring cooperative production networks, redefining the role of money as a tool for value circulation, and integrating formality with informality, MAR points to new paths for territorial autonomy and social resilience. This article presents an academic reading of Chapter 10.3, analyzing the foundations and implications of this methodology as a philosophical, economic, and political contribution to building African alternatives in the face of global crises.

Keywords: MAR; Barter; Prosperity; Social Unity; Artisanal Labor; Social Currency.

Introduction

Humanity’s history has always been marked by exchange. Long before formal money, barter sustained survival and prosperity, fostering trust and cooperation among communities. MAR revives this ancestral wisdom and places it at the heart of a modern, reformist, and motivational system.

Rather than seeing crises as barriers, MAR interprets them as opportunities: transforming technological unemployment into a revival of skills, inflation into local economic strength, and legislative crises into a call for academia and society to embrace production, reproduction, and recycling as pathways of transformation.

Development

1. Artisanal Work as a Source of Value

Traditional craftsmanship, often marginalized, is recognized within MAR as living heritage and a foundation of dignity. Each handmade product carries identity and meaning. By organizing small producers into networks and applying technology as an auxiliary tool rather than a replacement, MAR turns artisanal work into a driver of development and autonomy.

2. Money as Modern Barter

The MAR currency is not designed for accumulation but for circulation. Just as barter once moved goods and knowledge, MAR reinvents money as a method of trust and shared prosperity. Each productive cycle is reinvested and recycled, keeping wealth alive and flowing within the community.

3. Migration as Exchange and Sharing

In the past, trade routes connected distant peoples through barter. Today, migration can be seen under the same light: not as escape, but as an opportunity for the exchange of knowledge, cultures, and goods. MAR transforms migration into a bridge of integration: young people who remain in their territories strengthen their roots, while those who leave become ambassadors of knowledge, carrying MAR currency as a symbol of identity and connection to their communities of origin.

4. Crisis of Financial and Economic Legislation

Beyond migration, one of the greatest barriers to transformation lies in financial and economic legislation, which often locks nations into dependency on the State. Many societies have cultivated a culture of expecting everything from governments—even basic ideas for survival. This fosters passivity and undermines local creativity.

MAR proposes a different path: funneling all action into the fields of production, reproduction, and recycling. Instead of waiting for distant legislative reforms, communities assume responsibility for creating wealth through direct, localized action. At the same time, academia is called to develop effective methods that help people move away from dependency and embrace production as the foundation of true emancipation.

5. Bridging the Formal and Informal

MAR’s strength lies in its ability to unite different worlds. It recognizes the vitality of the informal sector, legitimizes its contributions, and creates mechanisms of certification and recognition that connect it with banks, cooperatives, and public policies. In doing so, MAR makes the economy more inclusive, while preserving local identity and productivity.

6. Transformative Impact

MAR’s impact goes beyond economics. It fosters:

• Territorial autonomy, breaking cycles of external dependency.
• Revaluation of artisanal labor, restoring dignity and knowledge.
• Cycles of money as barter, strengthening communities.
• Integration of academia and production, aligning knowledge with practice.

Conclusion

The Artisanal Reproductive Methodology is more than an economic model: it is a project of life and renewal. By redefining money as a form of barter, it restores trust; by elevating artisanal labor, it reaffirms dignity; by reframing migration, it transforms it into an opportunity for exchange; and by addressing the crisis of financial legislation, it mobilizes academia and communities to act.

In Gilson Guilherme Miguel Ângelo’s vision, MAR demonstrates that the future—African and human—can be built from the wisdom of the past, from collective work, and from the courage to reinvent life.

References

Ângelo, Gilson Guilherme Miguel. Money is a Complex Product:GAESEMA Publishing, 2025.

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