Note: This piece includes an excerpt from the authors’ new book Creating Wealth: Growing Local Economies with Local Currencies (New Society Publishers, 2011). The financial meltdown of 2008 highlighted the role that banking systems play in the world economy, bringing financial and monetary instability into focus as a driver of collapse. Not since the Great […]
Author Archives: Bernard Lietaer
Bernard Lietaer is author of The Future of Money (2001), which has been translated into 18 languages. He is coauthor of Creating Wealth (2011) and of the forthcoming New Currencies for a New World. He has been active in the domain of money systems for a period of 25 years in an unusual variety of functions, including at a central bank, at universities as professor of international finance, as president of the most cost-effective national electronic payment system in the world, and as a currency trader.